The outcome of liver grafts procured from hepatitis C-positive donors

Transplantation

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 582-587

  Velidedeoglu, Ergun ^a   Desai, Niraj M ^a   Campos, Louis ^a   Olthoff, Kim M ^a   Shaked, Abraham ^a   Nunes, Frederick ^a   Zeldin, Gillian ^a   Stewart, Charmaine ^a   Blumberg, Emily ^a   Abrams, John ^a   Markmann, James F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEROLOGY;

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037181126     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200202270-00018     Document Type: Article

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