One-Year Outcomes of a Cohort of Renal Transplant Patients Related to BMI in a Steroid-Sparing Regimen

Background. The prevalence of overweight and obese kidney transplant recipients (KTR) has risen in parallel to the obesity epidemic that has affected the general population over the last two decades. At present, there is an ongoing debate regarding the suitability for transplantation of obese patien...

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Main Authors: Maria Irene Bellini, PhD, Kostas Koutroutsos, PhD, Jack Galliford, MB, BS, Paul E. Herbert, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2017-12-01
Series:Transplantation Direct
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/fulltext/10.1097/TXD.0000000000000747