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. 2013 Apr;45(3):1245-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.02.025.

Increasing the donor and recipient pool-expanded criteria in living kidney donors

A Kocot  1 , M Giessing
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Increasing the donor and recipient pool-expanded criteria in living kidney donors

A Kocot et al. Transplant Proc. 2013 Apr.

Abstract

To increase the donor and recipient pool in living related renal transplantation, kidneys from expanded criteria living donors are used more frequently to reduce the general problem of organ shortage. This article presents an overview of the current literature concerning this topic to further improve donor selection and transplant decision making.

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