Impact of donor-recipient gender on kidney graft and patient survival: Short- and long-term outcomes

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 709-714

  Vavallo, Antonio ^a   Lucarelli, Giuseppe ^a   Spilotros, Marco ^a   Bettocchi, Carlo ^a   Palazzo, Silvano ^a   Selvaggi, Francesco Paolo ^a   Battaglia, Michele ^a   Ditonno, Pasquale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gender; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation; Long term outcome

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DONOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TRENDS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84901506799     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-013-1137-9     Document Type: Article

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