Histological characteristics of calcineurin inhibitor toxicity - There is no such thing as specificity!

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2549-2550

  Mengel, M ^a,b   Mihatsch, M ^c   Halloran, P F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTERIOLAR HYALINOSIS; ATROPHY; CAPILLARITIS; COLD ISCHEMIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EDITORIAL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GLOMERULOPATHY; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NEPHROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK; TUBULAR ATROPHY;

ARTERIOLES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 82455164110     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03719.x     Document Type: Editorial

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