The clinical course of kidney transplant recipients after 20 years of graft function

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 734-740

  McCaughan, Jennifer A ^a   Courtney, A E ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical research practice; complication; graft survival; kidney transplantation nephrology; patient survival

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD ISCHEMIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84924018833     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13041     Document Type: Review

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