DCD kidney transplantation: Results and measures to improve outcome

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-182

  Hoogland, E R Pieter ^a   Snoeijs, Maarten G J ^a   Van Heurn, L W Ernest ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Donation after cardiac death; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; Kidney transplantation; Organ preservation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEATH; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY PRESERVATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DEATH; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 77952251126     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32833734b1     Document Type: Review

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