Kidney transplantation from donors without a heartbeat

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 347, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 248-255

  Weber, Markus ^a   Dindo, Daniel ^a   Demartines, Nicholas ^a   Ambühl, Patrice M ^a   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CHRONOBIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENDER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; SWITZERLAND;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0037173461     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa020274     Document Type: Article

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