Kidney Transplants

New kidney transplants findings from Tokyo Women's Medical University published

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 23rd, 2007

According to a study from Tokyo, Japan, "A 54-yr-old Japanese male received overseas deceased kidney transplantation in January 2006. His allograft functioned immediately and he received immunosuppression with cyclosporine A (CyA), mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and prednisone (PR)."

"On day 24 after transplantation, he came back to Japan. His serum creatinine level (s-Cr) was 1.39 mg/dL at two months after transplantation when he was admitted into Toda Central General Hospital on March 2006, for follow-up his renal allograft. He had taken only two immunosuppressive drugs, MMF and PR, and had not taken CyA at that time. His serum creatinine gradually rose after...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-08-23)

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