Graft volume as the surrogate marker for nephron number affects the outcomes of living-donor kidney transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Han, Seung Seok ^a   Yang, Seung Hee ^b   Oh, Yoon Jung ^a   Cho, Jeong Yeon ^a   Moon, Kyung Chul ^a   Ha, Jongwon ^a   Kim, Yon Su ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Organ size; Outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A NEPHROPATHY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVE DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MEMBRANOUS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; NEPHRON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEROID THERAPY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRONS; ORGAN SIZE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958718611     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01426.x     Document Type: Article

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