Restricting living-donor-cadaver-donor exchanges to ensure that standard blood type O wait-list candidates benefit

Transplantation

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 641-646

  Ross, Lainie Friedman ^a,b   Zenios, Stefanos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaver donors; Kidney exchanges; Kidney transplantation; Living donors; Medical ethics; Paired exchanges

Indexed keywords

BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP A; BLOOD GROUP AB; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD GROUP B; BLOOD GROUP O; CADAVER KIDNEY; ETHICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; CADAVER; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 4544376497     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000134522.31554.05     Document Type: Review

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