Predictors of graft failure and death in elderly kidney transplant recipients

Transplantation

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1089-1096

  Faravardeh, Arman ^a   Eickhoff, Mie ^a   Jackson, Scott ^a   Spong, Richard ^a   KGBRla, Aleksandra ^a   Issa, Naim ^a   Matas, Arthur J ^b   Ibrahim, Hassan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Patient survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84891633515     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182a688e5     Document Type: Article

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