The living kidney donor: Giving life, avoiding harm

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-26

  Sommerer, Claudia ^a   Wiesel, Manfred ^a   Schweitzer Rothers, Jochen ^a   Ritz, Eberhard ^a   Zeier, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Kidney; Living related; Renal disease; Transplantation; Uninephrectomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INTERFERON;

ALPORT SYNDROME; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS INFECTION;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; FAMILY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 12244289687     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/18.1.23     Document Type: Editorial

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