The Epidemiologic Burden of Tacrolimus Variability among Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States.
CONCLUSION: More than half of established kidney transplant patients from a large national sample exhibited levels of tacrolimus variability that have been associated with inferior transplant outcomes. Tacrolimus variability has a weak association with subtherapeutic levels, but represents a more complicated constellation of clinical factors.
PMID: 31553982 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Nephrology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Shah PB, Ennis JL, Cunningham PN, Josephson MA, McGill RL Tags: Am J Nephrol Source Type: research
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