Open AccessPerioperative Mortality and Long-term Survival Following Live Kidney Donation
Author(s) -
Dorry L. Segev
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2010.237
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , donation , cohort , kidney transplantation , nephrectomy , hazard ratio , confidence interval , perioperative , cohort study , surgery , demography , transplantation , kidney , sociology , economics , economic growth
More than 6000 healthy US individuals every year undergo nephrectomy for the purposes of live donation; however, safety remains in question because longitudinal outcome studies have occurred at single centers with limited generalizability.
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