"Old-for-Old" Cadaveric Renal Transplantation: Surgical Findings, Perioperative Complications and Outcome

European Urology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 701-708

  Giessing, Markus ^a   Budde, Klemens ^a   Fritsche, Lutz ^a   Slowinski, Torsten ^a   Tuerk, Ingolf ^a,b   Schoenberger, Bernd ^a   Neumayer, Hans Helmut ^a   Loening, Stefan A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor pool; Eurotransplant Senior Program (ESP); Old donors; Renal transplantation; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CADAVER; CADAVER KIDNEY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN; LUNG EDEMA; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; RENAL ARTERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0347525908     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0302-2838(03)00380-4     Document Type: Article

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