Patients with renal failure after liver transplantation have a particularly poor prognosis. Therefore, in the setting of end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis or severe renal insufficiency that will not improve after liver replacement, combined liver-kidney transplantation (LKT) is the preferre
Sirolimus rescue of renal failure in children after combined liver-kidney transplantation
โ Scribed by Udo Vester; Birgitta Kranz; Silvio Nadalin; Andreas Paul; Jan Becker; Peter F. Hoyer
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-041X
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