Liver transplantation from donors aged 80 years and over: Pushing the limit

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1139-1147

  Nardo, Bruno ^a   Masetti, Michele ^b   Urbani, Lucio ^c   Caraceni, Paolo ^a   Montalti, Roberto ^a   Filipponi, Franco ^c   Mosca, Franco ^c   Martinelli, Gerardo ^a   Bernard, Mauro ^a   Pinna, Antonio Daniele ^b   Cavallari, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C; Liver transplantation; Old donors

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTHROMBIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042738112     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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