Trends in unrelated-donor kidney transplantation in the developing world

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1925-1929

  Barsoum, Rashad S ^a,b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Cairo Kidney Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Directed living donors; Organ trafficking; Transplant tourism; Undirected living donors; Unrelated living donors

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADVERTIZING; CADAVER KIDNEY; CHRONIC ALLOGRAFT NEPHROPATHY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG POTENCY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; TOURISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY;

CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 53749092963     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-008-0858-2     Document Type: Editorial

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