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Favorable outcomes of kidneys from non-heart-beating donors whose cardiac arrest occurred out of hospital

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boxed-textSanchez-Fructuoso AI et al. (2006) Victims of cardiac arrest occurring outside the hospital: a source of transplantable kidneys. Ann Intern Med 145: 157–164

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  1. D Talbot is a liver and kidney transplant surgeon at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.,

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