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Assessing the vascular effects of early erythropoietin use in pediatric renal transplant recipients

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boxed-textNagarajan S et al. (2007) Transplant reno-vascular stenoses associated with early erythropoietin use. Clin Transplant 21: 597–608

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  1. DM Briscoe is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Pediatric Transplantation Research Program at the Transplantation Research Center, Children's Hospital Boston, and S Pal is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Principal Investigator at the Transplantation Research Center, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA.,

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DM Briscoe has received grant support from the Roche Organ Transplantation Research Foundation and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and he has served as a consultant to Praecis Pharmaceuticals and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. S Pal declared no competing interests.

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Briscoe, D., Pal, S. Assessing the vascular effects of early erythropoietin use in pediatric renal transplant recipients. Nat Rev Nephrol 4, 136–137 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpneph0707

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