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Relationship between postrenal transplant osteonecrosis of the femoral head and gene polymorphisms related to the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems in Japanese subjects.
Transplantation - 27 Jan 2004
Asano Takeshi, Takahashi Kenji A, Fujioka Mikihiro, Inoue Shigehiro, Ueshima Keiichiro, Hirata Tetsurou, Okamoto Masahiko, Satomi Yoshiko, Nishino Hoyoku, Tanaka Takashi, Hirota Yoshio, Kubo Toshikazu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nontraumatic osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is one of the complications that may occur after renal transplantation. We investigated the relationship between the incidence of ONFH and polymorphisms in the genes for plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1, which is one of the...
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