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Hypertension after renal transplantation and polymorphism of genes involved in essential hypertension: ACE, AGT, AT1 R and ecNOS.
Clinical nephrology - 1 Mar 2002
Basset El-Essawy A, Berthoux P, Cécillon S, Deprle C, Thibaudin D, De Filippis J P, Alamartin E, Berthou F
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BACKGROUND: Arterial hypertension (HT), secondary to cyclosporine A (CsA) used as main immunosuppressive treatment in renal transplantation (RTx), is very frequent (70%), usually severe and explained mostly by vasoconstriction of the glomerular afferent arteriole with secondary sodium and water retention. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In a retrospective study, we have analyzed 294 consecutive recipients receiving a first...
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