Czech-Austrian kidney paired donation: first European cross-border living donor kidney exchange
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Paired Kidney Donation and Listed Exchange
Deceased-donor and live-donor kidneys are the two sources for transplantation, and these sources are utilized via two different programs. One of these programs, a paired kidney donation (PKD), involves two donor-patient pairs, for each of whom transplantation from donor to intended recipient is not possible due to medical incompatibilities, but such that the patient in each couple could receive...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transplant International
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0934-0874
DOI: 10.1111/tri.12945