Living donor kidney transplantation: the effects of donor age and gender on short- and long-term outcomes

Transplantation

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 600-606

  Øien, Cecilia Montgomery ^a,b   Reisæter, Anna Varberg ^c   Leivestad, Torbjørn ^c   Dekker, Friedo W ^d,e   Line, Pål Dag ^c   Os, Ingrid ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acute rejection episode; Donor age; Donor sex; Graft survival; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33947331704     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000255583.34329.dd     Document Type: Article

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