Survival Following Liver Transplantation from Non-Heart-Beating Donors

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 87-92

  Abt, Peter L ^a   Desai, Niraj M ^a   Crawford, Michael D ^a   Forman, Lisa M ^b   Markmann, Joseph W ^a   Olthoff, Kim M ^a   Markmann, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEART BEAT; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0842305743     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000103063.82181.2c     Document Type: Article

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