Liver retransplantation for primary nonfunction: Analysis of a 20-year single-center experience

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-233

  Uemura, Tadahiro ^a   Randall, Henry B ^a   Sanchez, Edmund Q ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Narasimhan, Gomathy ^a   McKenna, Greg J ^a   Chinnakotla, Srinath ^a   Levy, Marlon F ^a   Goldstein, Robert M ^a   Klintmalm, Goran B ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COLD ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATING ROOM; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847647510     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20992     Document Type: Article

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