Severe gastrointestinal complications after 1,515 adult kidney transplantations

Transplant International

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 505-510

  Sarkio, Susanna ^a,b   Halme, Leena ^a   Kyllönen, Lauri ^a   Salmela, Kaija ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Lohja Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal complication; Immunosuppression; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CARCINOID; CHOLECYSTITIS; COLON CARCINOMA; COLON DISEASE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ULCER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER ABSCESS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PANCREATITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM PROLAPSE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COLONIC DISEASES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9944235078     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2004.tb00479.x     Document Type: Article

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