Transplantation: Pump it up: Conserving a precious resource?

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 433-434

  Hartono, Choli ^a   Suthanthiran, Manikkam ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CRYOPRESERVATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SURVIVAL RATE;

COLD TEMPERATURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PERFUSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 70349333866     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2009.110     Document Type: Short Survey

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