Transplant tourism in the United States: A single-center experience

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1820-1828

  Gill, Jagbir ^a,c   Madhira, Bhaskara R ^a   Gjertson, David ^b   Lipshutz, Gerald ^a   Cecka, J Michael ^b   Pham, Phuong Thu ^a   Wilkinson, Alan ^a   Bunnapradist, Suphamai ^a   Danovitch, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; DONOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149335158     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.02180508     Document Type: Article

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