Intraoperative blood loss during living donor liver transplantation: An analysis of 635 recipients at a single center

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 879-884

  Yuasa, Takeshi ^a   Niwa, Norimi ^b   Kimura, Shinya ^b   Tsuji, Hiroaki ^b   Yurugi, Kimiko ^b   Egawa, Hiroto ^b   Tanaka, Koichi ^b   Asano, Hiroaki ^b   Maekawa, Taira ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VOLUME; CHILD; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK FACTOR; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20444423764     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.04330.x     Document Type: Article

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