Extended pancreas donor program - the EXPAND study rationale and study protocol

Transplantation Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Proneth, Andrea ^a   Schnitzbauer, Andreas A ^a,b   Zeman, Florian ^a   Foerster, Johanna R ^a   Holub, Ines ^a   Arbogast, Helmut ^c   Bechstein, Wolf O ^b   Becker, Thomas ^d   Dietz, Carsten ^e   Guba, Markus ^c   Heise, Michael ^f   Jonas, Sven ^g   Kersting, Stephan ^h   Klempnauer, Jürgen ⁱ   Manekeller, Steffen ^j   Müller, Volker ^k   Nadalin, Silvio ^l   Nashan, Björn ^m   Pascher, Andreas ⁿ   Rauchfuss, Falk ^o   Ströhlein, Michael A ^p   Schemmer, Peter ^q   Schenker, Peter ^r   Thorban, Stefan ^s   Vogel, Thomas ^t   Rahmel, Axel O ^u   Viebahn, Richard ^r   Banas, Bernhard ^a   Geissler, Edward K ^a   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Farkas, Stefan A ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MARBURG   (Germany)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^h DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

ⁿ CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^o JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^r ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^s TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^u EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Extended donor criteria; Organ allocation; Pancreas transplantation; Rejection

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS DONOR; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION AFTER KIDNEY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84885846437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20471440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2047-1440-2-12     Document Type: Article

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