Use of livers with microvesicular fat safely expands the donor pool

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 248-251

  Fishbein, Thomas M ^a   Fiel, M Isabel ^a   Emre, Sukru ^a   Cubukcu, Olcay ^a   Guy, Stephen R ^a   Schwartz, Myron E ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a   Sheiner, Patricia A ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; FATTY LIVER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOPSY; BODY MASS INDEX; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030760247     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199707270-00012     Document Type: Article

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