Equally interchangeable? How sex and gender affect transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 1094-1110

  Melk, Anette ^a   Babitsch, Birgit ^b   Borchert Mörlins, Bianca ^a   Claas, Frans ^c   Dipchand, Anne I ^d   Eifert, Sandra ^e   Eiz Vesper, Britta ^a   Epping, Jelena ^a   Falk, Christine S ^a   Foster, Bethany ^f,g   Geyer, Siegfried ^a   Gjertson, David ^h   Greer, Mark ^a   Haubitz, Marion ⁱ   Lau, Ashley ^j   Maecker Kolhoff, Britta ^a   Memaran, Nima ^a   Messner, Hans A ^k   Ostendorf, Karen ^a   Samuel, Undine ^l   Schmidt, Bernhard M W ^a   Tullius, Stefan G ^m   West, Lori ⁿ   Wong, Germaine ^o,p   Zimmermann, Tanja ^a   Berenguer, Marina ^q   more..

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ KLINIKUM FULDA   (Germany)

^j DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^l EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^m HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^o WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^q UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN ALLOCATION SYSTEM; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADVERSE EVENT; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; GENDER IDENTITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX FACTOR; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 85069163589     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000002655     Document Type: Review

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