Outcome of the living kidney donor

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-50

  Delanaye, Pierre ^a   Weekers, Laurent ^a   Dubois, Bernard E ^a   Cavalier, Etienne ^a   Detry, Olivier ^a   Squifflet, Jean Paul ^a   Krzesinski, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

glomerular filtration rate; hypertension; living kidney donor; proteinuria

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DONOR SELECTION; FETUS WASTAGE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY MASS; LIVING DONOR; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; NEPHRECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 84856642853     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr669     Document Type: Review

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