The SURF (Italian observational study for renal insufficiency evaluation in liver transplant recipients): a post-hoc between-sex analysis

Abstract Background Female sex has been reported as an independent predictor of severe post-liver transplantation (LT) chronic kidney disease. We performed a by sex post-hoc analysis of the SURF study, that investigated the prevalence of renal impairment following LT, aimed at exploring possible dif...

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Main Authors: Delia Colombo, Alessandro Zullo, Lucia Simoni, Emanuela Zagni, on behalf of the SURF Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-019-1656-8