Subclinical acute rejection treated as clinical acute rejection: same intervention, same morbidity, masked endpoint, equal reporting

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Scott A Gruber. Transplantation. 2006.

. 2006 Dec 15;82(11):1550-1; author reply 1551-2.

doi: 10.1097/01.tp.0000237206.65806.f9.

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