Center-Level Experience and Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV-Infected Recipients

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2096-2104

  Locke, J E ^a   Reed, R D ^a   Mehta, S G ^b   Durand, C ^c   Mannon, R B ^b   Maclennan, P ^a   Shelton, B ^a   Martin, M Y ^b   Qu, H ^d   Shewchuk, R ^d   Segev, D L ^c,e  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

(SRTR); clinical research practice; graft survival; health services and outcomes research; infection and infectious agents; infectious disease; kidney (allograft) function dysfunction; kidney transplantation nephrology; patient survival; Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients; viral: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ADOLESCENT; HIV INFECTIONS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937517334     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13220     Document Type: Article

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