American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 585-590 , September 2010

Decreased Kidney Function and Crystal Deposition in the Tubules After Kidney Transplant

  • Piero Stratta, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation and International Research Centre Autoimmune Disease (IRCAD), Maggiore Hospital of Novara
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Piero Stratta, MD, Nephrology and Transplantation, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, & International Research Centre Autoimmune Disease (IRCAD) of the Amedeo Avogadro University, Novara, Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, Corso Mazzini 18 28100 Novara, Italy
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  • Giovanni Battista Fogazzi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Laboratory on Urine, Nephrology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS, Ospedale Maggiore-Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milano
    • ,
  • Caterina Canavese, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation and International Research Centre Autoimmune Disease (IRCAD), Maggiore Hospital of Novara
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  • Andrea Airoldi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation and International Research Centre Autoimmune Disease (IRCAD), Maggiore Hospital of Novara
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  • Roberta Fenoglio, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation and International Research Centre Autoimmune Disease (IRCAD), Maggiore Hospital of Novara
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  • Cristina Bozzola, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Science Section Pathology of the Amedeo Avogadro University, Maggiore Hospital of Novara
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  • Irène Ceballos-Picot, PharmD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Metabolic Biochemistry B, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
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  • Guillaume Bollée, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of dult Nephrology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and Paris Descartes University, Paris, France
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  • Michel Daudon, PharmD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biochemistry A, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital and Paris Descartes University, Paris, France

Received 20 May 2009 ,Accepted 15 December 2009.

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 Originally published online as doi:10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.12.028 on March 22, 2010.

PII: S0272-6386(10)00005-3

doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2009.12.028

American Journal of Kidney Diseases
Volume 56, Issue 3 , Pages 585-590 , September 2010

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