The history of organ donation and transplantation in Iran

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2014, Pages 38-41

  Ghods, Ahad J ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain death and organ transplantation act; Middle east society for organ transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; IRAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT HISTORY OF TRANSPLANTATION; RELIGION; UNITED KINGDOM; DONOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; ISLAM; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IRAN; ISLAM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84897380219     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.25Liver.L29     Document Type: Article

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