Renal Transplantation: Can We Reduce Calcineurin Inhibitor/Stop Steroids? Evidence Based on Protocol Biopsy Findings
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Renal transplantation: can we reduce calcineurin inhibitor/stop steroids? Evidence based on protocol biopsy findings.
How to combine antirejection drugs and which is the optimal dose of steroids and calcineurin inhibitors beyond the first year after kidney transplantation to maintain adequate immunosuppression without major side effects are far from clear. Kidney transplant patients on steroid, cyclosporine (CsA), and azathioprine were randomized to per-protocol biopsy (n = 30) or no-biopsy (n = 29) 1 to 2 yr ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1046-6673,1533-3450
DOI: 10.1097/01.asn.0000048717.97169.29