'When good kidneys pump badly': Outcomes of deceased donor renal allografts with poor pulsatile perfusion characteristics

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-446

  Guarrera, James V ^a   Goldstein, Michael J ^a   Samstein, Benjamin ^a   Henry, Scot ^a   Reverte, Christopher ^a   Arrington, Ben ^a   Brown, Tod ^a   Coleman, Theresa K ^a   Mattei, Gabriel ^a   Mendez, Natasha ^a   Kelly, Joan ^a   Ratner, Lloyd E ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD ISCHEMIA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; AGED; GRAFT SURVIVAL; ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PROCEDURES; REPERFUSION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COLD ISCHEMIA; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; REPERFUSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 77649263563     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00970.x     Document Type: Letter

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