Bilirubin appears to be the only independent variable affecting mortality on liver transplant waiting list if waiting time exceeds 1 year

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4365-4366

  Lee, Y M ^a,b   Wai, C T ^a   Da Costa, M ^a   Lee, K H ^a   Sutedja, D ^a   Tan, K C ^a   Isaac, J ^a   Lim, S G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANK SUM TEST; SINGAPORE; TIME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 29544442640     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2005.11.015     Document Type: Article

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