Immunological monitoring after pancreas transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-75

  Margreiter, Christian ^a   Pratschke, Johann ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

enteroscopic biopsy; immunologic monitoring; pancreas graft rejection; pancreas graft surveillance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PANCREAS ENZYME;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; DUODENUM MUCOSA; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGICAL MONITORING; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; DUODENUM; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MONITORING, IMMUNOLOGIC; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREATIC JUICE;

EID: 84872930818     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32835c51b5     Document Type: Review

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