Isolated liver transplantation in infants with end-stage liver disease due to short bowel syndrome

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1062-1066

  Botha, Jean F ^a   Grant, Wendy J ^a   Torres, Clarivet ^a   Iverson, Angie K ^a   Sudan, Debra L ^a   Shaw Jr , Byers W ^a   Langnas, Alan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CATCH UP GROWTH; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE ADAPTATION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; ISOLATED LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETRANSPLANTATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROGNOSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME;

EID: 33745974576     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20763     Document Type: Article

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