Practice patterns in evaluation of living kidney donors in united network for organ sharing-approved kidney transplant centers

American Journal of Nephrology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 466-473

  Brar, Amarpali ^a   Jindal, Rahul M ^b   Abbott, Kevin C ^b   Hurst, Frank P ^b   Salifu, Moro O ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Kidney transplant; Living donation; Practice patterns

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; EVALUATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROALBUMINURIA; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PYURIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; URINALYSIS;

HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84860554772     PISSN: 02508095     EISSN: 14219670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338450     Document Type: Review

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