Impact of the ratio of graft kidney volume to recipient body surface area on graft function after live donor kidney transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Jong Hoon ^a   Won, Je Hwan ^b   Oh, Chang Kwon ^b  

^a Kwandong University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Graft function; Kidney volume; Nephrons; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY SIZE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRON; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE AREA; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 83555163841     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01502.x     Document Type: Article

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