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Estimating the long term impact of kidney donation on life expectancy and end stage renal disease

BACKGROUND: Long term studies of live kidney donation do not show evidence of appreciable risks to the donor. However nephrectomy reduces total glomerular filtration rates (GFR) and is associated with increased rates of proteinuria and possibly hypertension. It is not clear to what extent these chan...

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Autor principal: Kiberd, Bryce A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23414596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-1440-2-2