Real-time direct measurement of human liver allograft temperature from recovery to transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 483-486

  Villa, Rosa ^a   Fondevila, Constantino ^b   Erill, Ivan ^a   Guimerà, Anton ^a   Bombuy, Ernest ^b   Gómez Suárez, Cristina ^c,d   Sacristán, Juan Carlos ^c   García Valdecasas, Juan Carlos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c FIFA MEDICAL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE   (Switzerland)

^d Carburos Metálicos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Liver; Monitoring; Temperature; Transport; Viability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER PRESERVATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADOLESCENT; COLD ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN PRESERVATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 32844459539     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000195903.12999.bc     Document Type: Article

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