Poor initial graft function after orthotopic liver transplantation: Can it be predicted and does it affect outcome? An analysis of 125 adult primary transplantations

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 373-379

  Maring, John K ^a   Klompmaker, Ids J ^a   Zwaveling, Jan H ^a   Kranenburg, Koos ^a   Ten Vergert, Els M ^a   Slooff, Maarten J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Graft function; Liver transplantation; Primary dysfunction; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030827502     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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