Patients seeking alternatives to the long waiting list: A reality faced by transplant physicians

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-207

  McKay, Dianne ^b   Potter, Steven R ^a   Behrend, Terry ^a   Stella, Frank ^a   Steinberg, Steven ^a  

^a SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FATALITY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ASIA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALARIA; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; TRAVEL; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 58149164985     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152692480801800310     Document Type: Article

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