Quality of life and life events of living unrelated kidney donors in Iran: A multicenter study

Transplantation

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 937-940

  Nejatisafa, Ali Akbar ^a,d   Mortaz Hedjri, Soroush ^a   Malakoutian, Tahereh ^a,b,c   Arbabi, Mohammad ^a   Hakemi, Monir Sadat ^a,b   Haghighi, Ali Nobakht ^b   Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza ^a   Fazel, Iraj ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^c Department of Internal Medicine ^*  (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Life stressors; Living unrelated kidney donors; Psychosocial; Quality of life; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIDNEY DONOR; LIFE EVENT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; INFANT; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 56049108811     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318186d945     Document Type: Article

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