Ethical issues surrounding high-risk kidney recipients: Implications for the living donor

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 180-182

  O'Hara, Jerome F ^a   Bramstedt, Katrina ^a   Flechner, Stewart ^a   Goldfarb, David ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; VIREMIA;

EID: 34548789596     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480701700304     Document Type: Article

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