Efficacy of 6-Month Pretransplant Abstinence for Patients With Alcoholic Liver Disease Undergoing Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2937-2940

  Hwang, S ^a   Lee, S G ^a   Kim, K K ^a   Kim, K H ^a   Ahn, C S ^a   Moon, D B ^a   Ha, T Y ^a   Song, G W ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERANCE; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33750961205     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.08.139     Document Type: Article

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