Comparison of long-term outcomes between spousal transplants and other living unrelated donor transplants: Single-center experience

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Yoon, Hye Eun ^a   Song, Joon Chang ^a   Hyoung, Bok Jin ^a   Hwang, Hyeon Seok ^a   Lee, So Young ^a   Jeon, Youn Joo ^a   Park, Sun Cheol ^a   Choi, Bum Soon ^a   Kim, Yong Soo ^a   Moon, In Sung ^a   Yang, Chul Woo ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Living unrelated donor; Renal transplantation; Spousal donor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPOUSE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KOREA; LIVING DONORS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPOUSES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549140242     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000235248     Document Type: Article

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