Both under-nutrition and obesity increase morbidity following liver transplantation

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 140-142

  Hade, A M ^a   Shine, A M ^b   Kennedy, N P ^b   McCormick, P Aiden ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SURVIVAL; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTORS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0042207073     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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