A highly efficient living donor kidney exchange program for both blood type and crossmatch incompatible donor-recipient combinations

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1616-1620

  De Klerk, Marry ^a,b   Witvliet, Marian D ^c   Haase Kromwijk, Bernadette J J M ^b   Claas, Frans H J ^c   Weimar, Willem ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Transplant Foundation   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exchange program; Kidney transplantation; Living donation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 33845917465     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000250906.66728.8d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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