Successful organ donation from brain dead donors in a Chinese Organ Transplantation Center

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2247-2249

  Sui, W G ^a   Yan, Q ^a   Xie, S P ^a   Chen, H Z ^a   Li, D ^a   Hu, C X ^b   Peng, W J ^b   Dai, Y ^a,b  

^a Kidney Transplantation and HemoPurification Center   (China)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain dead; clinical practice; ethics; organ procurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CADAVER DONOR; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN DEATH; CHINA; HUMANS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053333603     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03694.x     Document Type: Article

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