The effect of donor weight reduction on hepatic steatosis for living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 721-725

  Hwang, Shin ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a   Jang, Se Jin ^a   Cho, Sung Hun ^a   Kim, Kim Hun ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BIOPSY; BODY MASS INDEX; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; OBESITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 2942737189     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20172     Document Type: Article

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