Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant: UK experience

European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-14

  Williams, Roger S ^a,b,d   Alisa, Akeel A ^a   Karani, John B ^a,c   Muiesan, Paolo ^c   Rela, Shamsudin M ^a,c   Heaton, Nigel D ^a,c  

^a CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult liver transplantation; Donor organ shortage; ET MRI measurements of liver volume; Ethics of living donation; Liver regeneration; Living donor; Right and left lobe grafts; Serial liver volume measurements

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAMIVUDINE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CADAVER; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037246631     PISSN: 0954691X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042737-200301000-00003     Document Type: Article

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