Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) exception small-for-size syndrome

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 12 SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages

  Sheiner, Patricia ^a   Belghiti, Jacques ^b   Gish, Robert G ^c   Miller, Charles ^d  

^a WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHOLESTASIS; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME;

HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 33845506868     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20977     Document Type: Article

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