One hundred thirty-two consecutive pediatric liver transplants without hospital mortality: Lessons learned and outlook for the future

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1002-1012

  Broering, Dieter C ^a   Kim, Jong Sun ^a   Mueller, Teresa ^a   Fischer, Lutz ^a   Ganschow, Rainer ^a   Bicak, Turan ^a   Mueller, Lars ^a   Hillert, Christian ^a   Wilms, Christian ^a   Hinrichs, Bernd ^a   Helmke, Knut ^a   Pothmann, Werner ^a   Burdelski, Martin ^a   Rogiers, Xavier ^a   Neuhaus, ^b   Rogiers, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; ORGAN SIZE; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN DISEASE;

BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10044263147     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000146148.01586.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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