Living kidney donor relationship in caucasian and African American populations and implications for targeted donor education programs

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-36

  Cooper, Matthew ^a   Kramer, Andrew ^b   Barth, Rolf ^a   Phelan, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor characteristics; Donor kidney demographics; Donor nephrectomy; Racial disparities; Renal transplantation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SPOUSE; UNRELATED DONORS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; PARENTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPOUSES;

EID: 84873095407     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2012.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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