Highly successful long-term outcome of kidney transplantation in Chinese recipients: An enhancing race effect?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 178-184

  Hawkins, Brian R ^a,h   Chan, Peter ^b   Chan, Y T ^c   Cheng, Ignatius K P ^a   Cheung, K O ^d   Fenn, John ^e   Ho, K K ^a   Lai, K N ^b   Li, C S ^e   Lui, S F ^f   Opelz, Gerhard ^g   Tong, Matthew K L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d Caritas Medical Centre Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

^e QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^f CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^h QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese; HLA matching; Kidney transplantation; Survival

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; HLA ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHINESE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAPLOTYPE; HLA MATCHING; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CADAVER; CHINA; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE; CYCLOSPORINE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HLA ANTIGENS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8244241758     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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