Differences in tolerance for health risk to the living donor among potential donors, recipients, and transplant professionals

Kidney International

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1159-1166

  Young, A ^a   Karpinski, M ^b   Treleaven, D ^c   Waterman, A ^d   Parikh, C R ^e   Thiessen Philbrook, H ^a   Yang, R C ^a   Garg, A X ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross sectional studies; Decision making; Hypertension; Kidney transplantation; Living donors; Risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE;

EID: 42949155697     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2008.65     Document Type: Article

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