A prospective, randomized, non-blinded, non-inferiority pilot study to assess the effect of low-dose anti-thymocyte globulin with low-dose tacrolimus and early steroid withdrawal on clinical outcomes in non-sensitized living-donor kidney recipients

• Youngmin Ko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Youngmin Ko, Yu-Mee Wee

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Yu-Mee Wee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Youngmin Ko, Yu-Mee Wee

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Science, Asan Medical Institute of Convergence Science and Technology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Sung Shin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sshin@amc.seoul.kr

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1894-1381

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• Mi Joung Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Monica Young Choi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Dong Hyun Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Seong Jun Lim,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Joo Hee Jung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Hyunwook Kwon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Young Hoon Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Duck Jong Han

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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