Randomized trial of single-dose versus divided-dose rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin induction in renal transplantation: an interim report.

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Published in Transplantation on May 27, 2008

Authors

R Brian Stevens1, David F Mercer, Wendy J Grant, Alison G Freifeld, James T Lane, Gerald C Groggel, Theodore H Rigley, Kathleen J Nielsen, Megan E Henning, Jill Y Skorupa, Anna J Skorupa, Kecia A Christensen, John P Sandoz, Anna M Kellogg, Alan N Langnas, Lucile E Wrenshall

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-3285, USA. rbstevens@unmc.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Improved Induction and Maintenance Immunosuppression in Kidney Transplantation | NCT00556933

Safety Trial of Single Versus Multiple Dose Thymoglobulin Induction in Kidney Transplantation (STAT) | NCT00906204

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