Why did mother nature provide us with two kidneys?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2076-2078

  Steiger, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

living donors; renal function; transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINURIA; DONOR SELECTION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY HYPERFILTRATION; KIDNEY HYPERPERFUSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINEPHRECTOMY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79960005245     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr311     Document Type: Note

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