Living related renal transplants with lifelong follow-up. A model for the developing world

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL.1, 2010, Pages

  Rizvi, S A H ^a   Naqvi, S A A ^a   Zafar, M N ^a   Hussain, Z ^a   Hashmi, A ^a   Hussain, M ^a   Akhtar, F ^a   Ahmed, E ^a  

^a SINDH INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY AND TRANSPLANTATION   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Developing country; Dialysis; Model; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PAKISTAN; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

COST SAVINGS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; FINANCING, ORGANIZED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PAKISTAN; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 79952279598     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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