Pediatric organ allocation: Matching tissue and needs

Transplantation

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 244-245

  Sprangers, Ben ^a   Vanrenterghem, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; CADAVER DONOR; COLD ISCHEMIA; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; NOTE; PEDIATRICS; POSTTRANSPLANT LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955425757     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181e46a3e     Document Type: Note

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