Kidney paired donation: State of the science and practice

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 384-389

  Woodle, Steve ^a,b   Goldfarb, David ^a,c   Segev, Dorry ^d   Waterman, Amy D ^e   Gentry, Sommer ^d,i   Aeder, Mark ^a,f   Montgomery, Robert A ^d   Miao, Yun ^b,g   Lewis, Richard M ^a,h   Shapiro, Ron ^a,i  

^a North American Paired Donation Network   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^g Southern Hospital of Guangzhou   (China)

^h North Austin Medical Center   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Desensitisation; Kidney exchange; Paired donation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUROPE; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447515274     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e328270b8ef     Document Type: Review

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