MELD score predicts 1-year patient survival post-orthotopic liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 473-476

  Saab, Sammy ^a   Wang, Victor ^a   Ibrahim, Ayman B ^a   Durazo, Francisco ^a   Han, Steven ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a   Yersiz, Hasan ^a   Morrisey, Marcia ^a   Goldstein, Leonard I ^a   Ghobrial, R Mark ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STRATIFICATION; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0038104968     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50090     Document Type: Article

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