Gender imbalance among donors in living kidney transplantation: the Norwegian experience
- 8 February 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
- Vol. 20 (4) , 783-789
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfh696
Abstract
Background. In living donor (LD) kidney transplantation, a predominance of female-to-male donations has been observed. Gender demographics of living donors and outcomes of LD kidney transplantations in Norway were assessed, as this has not been explored previously.Keywords
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