Contraindications to kidney transplantation: uneven grounds?
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Contraindications to kidney transplantation: uneven grounds?
BACKGROUND Determining eligibility for a kidney transplant is an important decision. Practice guidelines define contraindications to transplantation; however many are not evidence based. Canadian guidelines recommend that patients unlikely to survive the wait period not be evaluated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate what proportion of patients with a contraindication would survive the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transplantation Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2047-1440
DOI: 10.1186/s13737-015-0024-x