Commercial cadaveric renal transplant: An ethical rather than medical issue

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 340-345

  Sun, Chiao Yin ^a   Lee, Chin Chan ^a   Chang, Chiz Tzung ^a   Hung, Cheng Chih ^a   Wu, Mai Szu ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Commercial cadaveric transplant; Ethnicity; Kidney graft survival; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; CADAVER; CODES OF ETHICS; COMMERCE; CREATININE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745058772     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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