Model for end-stage liver diseases score does not predict patient or graft survival in living donor liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 737-740

  Hayashi, Paul H ^a   Forman, Lisa ^a   Steinberg, Tracy ^a   Bak, Thomas ^a   Wachs, Michael ^a   Kugelmas, Marcelo ^a   Everson, Gregory T ^a   Kam, Igal ^a   Trotter, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE MODEL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEGRO; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038824913     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50122     Document Type: Article

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