Transplant tourism - a dangerous journey?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 633-637

  Polcari, Anthony J ^a   Hugen, Cory M ^a   Farooq, Ahmer V ^a   Holt, David R ^a   Hou, Susan H ^a   Milner, John E ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercialism; Kidney; Tourism; Trafficking; Transplant

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PATIENT CARE; PHILIPPINES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOURISM;

CHINA; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INDIA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL TOURISM; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PAKISTAN; PHILIPPINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051704698     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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