Effect of rapamycin on spleen size in longstanding renal transplant recipients

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1319-1323

  Araujo N C ^a   Sampaio Goncalves De Lucena S B ^a   Da Silveira Rioja, S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; RAPAMYCIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOWELL JOLLY BODY; HUMAN; HYPOSPLENISM; KIDNEY GRAFT; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN SIZE; THROMBOCYTE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIROLIMUS; SPLEEN;

EID: 84902498321     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2014.03.011     Document Type: Article

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