Graft survival and its deteminants: A 3 year national experience with liver transplantation in Israel

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 400-405

  Ekka Zohar, Anat ^a   Zitser Gurevich, Yana ^a   Mandel, Micha ^a   Weiss Salz, Inbal ^a   Nir, Sharon ^a   Mor, Eitan ^c   Richard, Nakash ^d   Merhav, Hadar ^d   Bruck, Rafael ^e   Simchen, Elisheva ^a,b  

^a Ministy of Health ^*  (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

CHILD scoring system; Graft survival; Liver transplantation; MELD scoring system; United Network for Organ Sharing

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE MIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; ISRAEL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNITED STATES; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HOSPITALIZATION; LIVER FAILURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745612046     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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