Organ trafficking for live donor kidney transplantation in indoasians resident in the west midlands: High activity and poor outcomes

Transplantation

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1456-1461

  Krishnan, Nithya ^a   Cockwell, Paul ^b   Devulapally, Pavan ^a   Gerber, Barbara ^c   Hanvesakul, Raj ^b   Higgins, Robert ^a   Ready, Andrew ^b   Carmichael, Paul ^d   Tomlinson, Kerry ^e   Kumar, Shiv ^f   Baharani, Jyoti ^c   Dasgupta, Indranil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e North Staffordshire Hospitals ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; outcomes; Overseas

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CADAVER DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CRIME; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954085985     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181da6019     Document Type: Article

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