A new diagnostic algorithm for antibody-mediated microcirculation inflammation in kidney transplants

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1168-1179

  Sis, B ^a,b   Jhangri, G S ^a   Riopel, J ^a   Chang, J ^a,b   De Freitas, D G ^a,b   Hidalgo, L ^a,b   Mengel, M ^a,b   Matas, A ^c   Halloran, P F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Banff; diagnosis; kidney; pathology; rejection; survival; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4D;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLOMERULITIS; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTIGENS, CD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFLAMMATION; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RENAL CIRCULATION; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860452194     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03931.x     Document Type: Article

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