Evaluation of native kidney recovery after simultaneous liver-kidney transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 530-535

  Francis, Jean M ^a   Palmer, Matthew R ^b   Donohoe, Kevin ^b   Curry, Michael ^b   Johnson, Scott R ^b   Karp, Seth J ^b   Evenson, Amy R ^b   Pavlakis, Martha ^b   Hanto, Douglas W ^b   Mandelbrot, Didier A ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combined transplants; Kidney function; Kidney transplantation; Liver transplantation; Nuclear medicine; Patient outcome

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BOSTON; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857641020     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182449161     Document Type: Article

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