Increasing the pool of transplantable kidneys through unrelated living donors and living donor paired exchanges

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 469-473

  Spital, Aaron ^a  

^a New York Organ Donor Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; ETHICS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION; UNITED STATES;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 30744460112     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2005.00091.x     Document Type: Review

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