Living donor age and kidney allograft half-life: Implications for living donor paired exchange programs

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 835-841

  Chang, Peter ^a   Gill, Jagbir ^a   Dong, James ^a   Rose, Caren ^a   Yan, Howard ^a   Landsberg, David ^a   Cole, Edward H ^b   Gill, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD GROUP; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HALF LIFE TIME; HLA MATCHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860714757     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.09990911     Document Type: Article

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