Risk factors for acute rejection in living donor liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 347-352

  Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Saiura, Akio ^a   Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

HLA; Living donor liver transplantation; Lymphocytotoxic matching

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0042622510     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2003.00057.x     Document Type: Article

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