Emotionally related living kidney donation: pro and contra.
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Outcome in emotionally related living kidney donor transplantation.
BACKGROUND The growing shortage of cadaver kidneys, the limited possibilities to expand the living related donor pool and the good results obtained in our centre with poorly matched cadaver kidneys, led us in 1991 to begin accepting highly motivated, unrelated, living kidney donors who had a strong emotional bond with the recipients. METHODS Between 1 January 1991 and 1 January 1996, 46 poten...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0931-0509,1460-2385
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027784