The Success of Continued Steroid Avoidance After Kidney Transplantation in the US

Lack of Improvement in Renal Allograft Survival Despite a Marked Decrease in Acute Rejection Rates Over the Most Recent Era

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Medicine, Nephrology, Surgery +15

Long-Term Renal Allograft Survival: Have we Made Significant Progress or is it Time to Rethink our Analytic and Therapeutic Strategies?

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A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Multicenter Trial Comparing Early (7 Day) Corticosteroid Cessation Versus Long-Term, Low-Dose Corticosteroid Therapy

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Medicine, Nephrology, Surgery +17

A Randomized, Multicenter Study of Steroid Avoidance, Early Steroid Withdrawal or Standard Steroid Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Flavio Vincenti, Francesco Paolo Schena, Steven Paraskevas et al. · American Journal of Transplantation · 2008 · 317 citations · Full text

Pharmacy, Nephrology, Pharmacotherapy +17

Long-Term Prospective Study of Steroid Withdrawal in Kidney and Heart Transplant Recipients

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Medicine, Nephrology, Surgery +16