The xenotransplantation narratives of nine type 1 diabetic patients with renal failure

Xenotransplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 509-511

  Idvall, Markus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Cultural perspective; Embodied narratives; In depth interviews; Type 1 diabetes; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTERVIEW; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NONHUMAN; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SWEDEN; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 33750070285     PISSN: 0908665X     EISSN: 13993089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3089.2006.00352_4.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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