Assessment of living kidney donors and adherence to national live donor guidelines in the UK

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1952-1960

  Arunachalam, Chera ^a   Garrues, Mila ^a   Biggins, Fiona ^a   Woywodt, Alex ^a   Ahmed, Aimun ^a  

^a LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Living kidney donation Assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BLOOD VESSEL; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KIDNEY SIZE; LIVING DONOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; RADIOISOTOPE DIAGNOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; URINALYSIS;

KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING KIDNEY DONATION ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884505521     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft096     Document Type: Article

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