Strategies for establishing organ transplant programs in developing countries: The Latin America and Caribbean experience

Artificial Organs

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 498-500

  Medina Pestana, José Osmar ^a,b   Duro Garcia, Valter ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Developing countries; Kidney; Latin America; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; LAW ENFORCEMENT;

BRAIN DEATH; BRAZIL; ECONOMIC RESOURCES; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; KIDNEY; LATIN AMERICA; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTS; TRANSPLANTATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 33745508723     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2006.00250.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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