Caring for the pregnant kidney transplant recipient

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 821-829

  Concepcion, Beatrice P ^a   Schaefer, Heidi M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Kidney transplant; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 83555165013     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01492.x     Document Type: Review

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