Kidney Paired Donation Protocol for Participating Donors 2014

Robert Richardson1, Maureen Connelly, Christine Dipchand

  • 11 Division of Nephrology, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 2 University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 3 Living Kidney Donation, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 4 Living Kidney Donation, Multi-Organ Transplant Program of Atlantic Canada (MOTP), QEII Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 5 Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 6 Living Kidney Donation, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada. 7 Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. 8 Kidney Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 9 Kidney Transplant Program, Centre hospitalier de l'université de Québec, Pavillon l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. 10 Kidney Transplant Program, Vancouver General Hospitall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 11 Saskatchewan Transplant Program, Saskatoon Health Region, St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. 12 Kidney Transplant Program, Providence Health Care, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 13 The Living Donor Services Program, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 14 Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 15 Donation and Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. 16 Transplant Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 17 Transplant Immunology Lab, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 18 Division of Nephrology, Horizon Health Network, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. 19 Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 20 Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 21 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada. 22 University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 23 Department of

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