Steroid avoidance or withdrawal in renal transplantation.
Summary of "Steroid avoidance or withdrawal in renal transplantation."
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Affiliation
1 Centre for Evidence in Transplantation, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom 2 Oxford Transplant Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Transplantation
ISSN: 1534-6080
Pages: e25
Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21336081
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e318208e6d9
Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Substance Withdrawal Syndrome
Physiological and psychological symptoms associated with withdrawal from the use of a drug after prolonged administration or habituation. The concept includes withdrawal from smoking or drinking, as well as withdrawal from an administered drug.
Delayed Graft Function
General dysfunction of an organ occurring immediately following its transplantation. The term most frequently refers to renal dysfunction following KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION.
Transplantation Conditioning
Preparative treatment of transplant recipient with various conditioning regimens including radiation, immune sera, chemotherapy, and/or immunosuppressive agents, prior to transplantation. Transplantation conditioning is very common before bone marrow transplantation.
Receptors, Steroid
Proteins found usually in the cytoplasm or nucleus that specifically bind steroid hormones and trigger changes influencing the behavior of cells. The steroid receptor-steroid hormone complex regulates the transcription of specific genes.
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Transfer of HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS from BONE MARROW or BLOOD between individuals within the same species (TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS) or transfer within the same individual (TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS). Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation has been used as an alternative to BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION in the treatment of a variety of neoplasms.
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