Causes of early acute graft failure after liver transplantation: Analysis of a 17-year single-centre experience

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 492-500

  Varotti, Giovanni ^a   Grazi, Gian Luca ^a   Vetrone, Gaetano ^a   Ercolani, Giorgio ^a   Cescon, Matteo ^a   Del Gaudio, Massimo ^a   Ravaioli, Matteo ^a   Cavallari, Antonino ^a   Pinna, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute cellular rejection; Liver transplantation; Primary graft non function; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 22244452642     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2005.00373.x     Document Type: Article

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