Should all human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with end- stage renal disease be excluded from transplantation? The views of U.S. transplant centers

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1187-1191

  Spital, Aaron ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Genesee Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0032525148     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199805150-00008     Document Type: Article

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