Split liver transplantation and risk to the adult recipient: Analysis using matched pairs

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 648-657

  Broering, Dieter C ^a,b   Topp, Stefan ^a   Schaefer, Ulrich ^a   Fischer, Lutz ^a   Gundlach, Matthias ^a   Sterneck, Martina ^a   Schoder, Volker ^b   Pothmann, Werner ^b   Rogiers, Xavier ^a  

^a Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036844567     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1072-7515(02)01339-X     Document Type: Article

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