Potential risks of living kidney donation - A review

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3122-3127

  Gai, Massimo ^a,b   Giunti, Sara ^b   Lanfranco, Giacomo ^a,b   Segoloni, Giuseppe Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hyperfiltration; Hypertension; Kidney transplantation; Living donors; Proteinuria; Renal function

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DONOR; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVING DONOR; MEDLINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 36749040334     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm480     Document Type: Editorial

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