Plasmapheresis: An effective therapy for primary allograft nonfunction after liver transportation

Transplantation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 216-220

  Mandal, Aloke K ^a,b   King, Karen E ^a   Humphreys, Susan L ^a   Maley, Warren R ^a   Burdick, James F ^a   Klein, Andrew S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034661641     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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