Effects of brain death on organ quality and transplant outcome

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 54-59

  Floerchinger, Bernhard ^a,b   Oberhuber, Rupert ^a   Tullius, Stefan G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN DEATH; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW;

EID: 84858962765     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: 15579816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2011.10.001     Document Type: Review

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