Pre-emptive Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Public Health Justification to Change the Default

Overview

Journal Front Public Health

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 Apr 3

PMID 37006536

Authors

Isaac Kim

Umberto Maggiore

Simon R Knight

Reshma Rana Magar

Liset H M Pengel

Frank J M F Dor

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