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Resolved: in minimizing kidney transplant immunosuppression, steroids should go before calcineurin inhibitors: pro.

Matas AJ

Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. matas001@umn.edu

Without direct comparison or randomized controlled trials, two experts square off on the difficult choice of trying to reduce the usage of one of two drugs with well-known side effects after kidney transplantation.

Published 27 November 2007 in J Am Soc Nephrol, 18(12): 3026-8.
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