Ten-yr results of the trans-Atlantic kidney transplant airlift between the Dutch Caribbean and the Netherlands

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 302-307

  Minnee, Robert C ^a   Lardy, Neubury ^b   Ajubi, Nouaf ^c   Idu, Mirza M ^a   Kock, Romeo V ^d   Legemate, Dink A ^a   van Donselaar van der Pant, Karlijn A M I ^a   Bemelman, Frederike J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Sanquin Diagnostiek   (Netherlands)

^c Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^d Dr Horacio E Oduber Hospital   (Aruba)

Author keywords

Cold ischemia; Graft survival; HLA antigens; Kidney transplantation; Perfusion

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CURACAO; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT TRANSFER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953295136     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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