Shifting paradigms in eligibility criteria for live kidney donation: A systematic review

Kidney International

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-45

  Ahmadi, Ali R ^a   Lafranca, Jeffrey A ^a   Claessens, Laura A ^a   Imamdi, Raoul M S ^a   Ijzermans, Jan N M ^a   Betjes, Michiel G H ^a   Dor, Frank J M F ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eligibility; extended criteria; live kidney donation; systematic review

Indexed keywords

AGE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; DONOR SELECTION; GENDER; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVING DONOR; MATERNAL AGE; MINOR (PERSON); MORTALITY; NULLIPARA; OBESITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEINURIA; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84920263136     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2014.118     Document Type: Review

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