Age and liver transplantation: A report of the liver transplantation database

Transplantation

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 500-506

  Zetterman, Rowen K ^a   Belle, Steven H ^b   Hoofnagle, Jay H ^c,d   Lawlor, Sharon ^b   Wei, Yuling ^b   Everhart, James ^c   Wiesner, Russell H ^e   Lake, John R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032572694     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199808270-00015     Document Type: Article

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