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Brain Death in Pediatric Patients in Japan: Diagnosis and Unresolved Issues

Brain death (BD) is a physiological state defined as complete and irreversible loss of brain function. Organ transplantation from a patient with BD is controversial in Japan because there are two classifications of BD: legal BD in which the organs can be donated and general BD in which the organs ca...

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Autores principales: ARAKI, Takashi, YOKOTA, Hiroyuki, FUSE, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Neurosurgical Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26548741
http://dx.doi.org/10.2176/nmc.ra.2015-0231