Selective use of older adults in right lobe living donor liver transplantation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 142-150

  Shah, S A ^a   Cattral, M S ^a   McGilvray, I D ^a   Adcock, L D ^a   Gallagher, G ^a   Smith, R ^a   Lilly, L B ^a   Girgrah, N ^a   Greig, P D ^a   Levy, G A ^a   Grant, D R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biliary stricture; Donor hepatectomy; Living donor liver transplantation; Older donor age

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CHOLESTASIS; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845599543     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2006.01596.x     Document Type: Article

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