Association between the malnutrition-inflammation score and post-transplant anaemia

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2000-2006

  Molnar, Miklos Z ^a,b   Czira, Maria E ^a   Rudas, Anna ^a   Ujszaszi, Akos ^a   Haromszeki, Bela ^a   Kosa, Janos P ^a   Lakatos, Peter ^a   Beko, Gabriella ^a   Sarvary, Eniko ^a   Varga, Marina ^a   Fornadi, Katalin ^a,c   Novak, Marta ^a   Rosivall, Laszlo ^a   Kiss, Istvan ^d   Remport, Adam ^d   Goldsmith, David J ^e   Kovesdy, Csaba P ^f,g   Mucsi, Istvan ^a,h  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d Szent Imre Hospital   (Hungary)

^e GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^h MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

inflammation; kidney transplantation; post transplant anaemia; protein energy wasting

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AZATHIOPRINE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; IRON; LEPTIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TRANSFERRIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION INFLAMMATION SCORE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; ANEMIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 79958100841     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq690     Document Type: Article

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