Open Access<p>Extended Criteria Donors in Living Kidney Transplantation Including Donor Age, Smoking, Hypertension and BMI</p>
Author(s) -
Henning Plage,
Poline Pielka,
Lutz Liefeldt,
Klemens Budde,
Jan Ebbing,
Nesrin Sugünes,
Kurt Miller,
Hannes Cash,
Anna Bichmann,
Arne Sattler,
Katja Kotsch,
Frank Friedersdorff
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
therapeutics and clinical risk management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1178-203X
pISSN - 1176-6336
DOI - 10.2147/tcrm.s256962
Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , renal function , kidney transplantation , body mass index , risk factor , economic shortage , retrospective cohort study , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics)
An expansion of selection criteria for deceased organ transplantation already exists to manage the current donor shortage. Comparable evaluation of risk factors for living donors should be investigated to improve this issue.