Panning for gold: Screening for potential live kidney donors

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1276-1280

  Calder, Francis R ^a   Chang, Rene W ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Live kidney donation; Renal transplantation; Screening

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PARENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SIBLING;

CADAVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 2442484633     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh045     Document Type: Review

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