Successful transplantation of donation-after-cardiac-death liver in recipient with MELD score of 40 [1]

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 716-717

  Matsuoka, Lea ^a   Jabbour, Nicolas ^a   Selby, Rick ^a   Gagandeep, Singh ^a,b  

^a USC UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; CASE REPORT; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HEPATITIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CADAVER; DEATH; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33748683341     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000234931.72914.26     Document Type: Letter

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5. Mateo R, Cho Y, Singh G, et al. Risk factors for graft survival after liver transplantation from donation after cardiac death donors: an analysis of OPTN/UNOS data. Am J Transplant 2006; 6: 791.