Outcomes of overseas kidney transplantation in chronic haemodialysis patients in Taiwan

Nephrology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-348

  Hsu, Chih Cheng ^a,b   Lee, Cheng Hua ^c   Hwang, Shang Jyh ^d   Huang, Shi Wei ^e   Yang, Wu Chang ^f   Chang, Yu Kang ^a   Tsai, Daniel Fu Chang ^g   Kuo, Ken N ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Bureau of National Health Insurance Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e ST MARTIN DE PORRES HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

kidney transplantation; organ trafficking; post transplantation outcome

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMATOMA; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LYMPHOCELE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERSEAS KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TAIWAN; TUBERCULOSIS; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; URINOMA;

ADULT; CHINA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951988763     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2010.01426.x     Document Type: Article

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