and azathioprine is still unclear. After initial therapy with cyclosporine and steroids,. 354 cadaver renal transplant recipients were randomly assigned at the post- ...
A Randomized Study Regimens in Cadaveric
Comparing Three Cyclosporine-Based Renal Transplantation
CLAUDIO PONTICELLI,* ANTONIO TARANTINO,* GIUSEPPE P. SEGOLONI,t VINCENZO CAMBI,# GAETANO RIZZO, PAOLO ALTIERI,111 FRANCESCO MASTRANGELO, MARCO CASTAGNETO,1 MAURIZIO SALVADORI,111 UMBERTO VALENTE, MARIA COSSU,tt STEFANO FEDERICO,** FRANCESCO PISANI,11 GIUSEPPE MONTAGNINO,* MARIA MESSINA,t LUCA ARISI,# MARIO CARMELLINI, GIANBENEDETTO PIREDDA,111’ and GIUSEPPE CORBETTA, for THE ITALIAN MULTICENTRE STUDY GROUP FOR RENAL TRANSPLANTATION (SIMTRe) *Djvisio,,e
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Giovanni Sperimentale,
Roma;
di Parma:
Nefrologia
e Dialisi,
Whether
steroids
(FP);
to treat
combined
with
and azathioprine
Nefnologia
renal
transplant After
rime alone
(monotherapy),
apy),
or cyclosporine
apy).
Monotherapy
switched
plus
to either
the
91%
graft
survival
the
therapy,
death
and
the pure
91 %,
respectively
(P
= not significant).
and
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52%
patients,
the
patients
in monotherapy,
therapy
(P
were 4-year
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the pure graft survival 94%, respectively, for alone. failure tion
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