Expanding the donor pool to increase renal transplantation

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 34-41

  Cohen, Bernard ^a   Smits, Jacqueline M ^a   Haase, Bernadette ^b   Persijn, Guido ^a   Vanrenterghem, Yves ^c   Frei, Ulrich ^d  

^a EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Expanded criteria donors; Non heart beating donors; Renal allocation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 13444258098     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh506     Document Type: Article

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