Expanded-criteria donor kidneys: A single-center clinical and short-term financial analysis - Cause for concern in retransplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1670-1675

  Sellers, Marty T ^a,c   Velidedeoglu, Ergun ^a   Bloom, Roy D ^a   Grossman, Robert A ^a   Markmann, Joseph W ^a   Naji, Ali ^a   Frank, Adam M ^a   Kass, Allyson B ^a   Nathan, Howard M ^b   Hasz, Richard D ^b   Abrams, John D ^b   Markmann, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Gift of Life Donor Program   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Expanded criteria donor; Kidney transplantation; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER STRICTURE;

ADULT; AGED; CADAVER; CREATININE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION;

EID: 10644275095     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000144330.84573.66     Document Type: Article

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