The pediatric end-stage liver disease (PELD) model as a predictor of survival benefit and posttransplant survival in pediatric liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 475-480

  Barches, Neal R ^a   Lee, Timothy C ^a   Udell, Ian W ^a   O'Mahoney, Christine A ^a   Karpen, Saul J ^a   Carter, Beth A ^a   Goss, John A ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE MODEL; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33645295221     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20703     Document Type: Article

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