Blacks as Donors for Transplantation: Suboptimal Outcomes Overcome by Transplantation Into Other Minorities

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 995-1000

  Callender, C O ^a   Cherikh, W S ^a   Miles, P V ^a   Hermesch, A ^a   Maddox, G ^a   Nash, J ^a   Hernandez, A ^a   Burston, B ^a  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DONOR SELECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSPLANTATION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MINORITY GROUPS; REGISTRIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44849087150     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.03.063     Document Type: Article

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