Living-unrelated donor renal transplantation: An alternative to living-related donor transplantation?

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-250

  Ahmad, Nadeem ^a   Ahmed, Kamran ^a   Shamim Khan, Mohammad ^a   Calder, Francis ^a   Mamode, Nizam ^a   Taylor, John ^a   Koffman, Geoff ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Living donors; Living unrelated donors; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING UNRELATED DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIBLING; SPOUSE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; URETER DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; FAMILY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPOUSES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42649145876     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588408X261636     Document Type: Article

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