Utilization of extended donor criteria liver allograft: Is the elevated risk of failure independent of the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score of the recipient?

Transplantation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1653-1657

  Maluf, Daniel G ^a,c   Edwards, Erick B ^b   Kauffman, H Myron ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended donor criteria; Liver transplantation; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTENDED CRITERIA DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845944180     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000250571.41361.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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