Therapeutic Apheresis Rescue Mission: Recurrent Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Renal Allografts

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 190-192

  Keith, Douglas Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS, FOCAL SEGMENTAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; RECURRENCE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84858698469     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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