Long-term survival and predictors of relapse after orthotopic liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-205

  Pfitzmann, Robert ^a   Schwenzer, Jeannette ^a   Rayes, Nada ^a   Seehofer, Daniel ^a   Neuhaus, Ruth ^a   Nüssler, Natascha C ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33847648778     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20934     Document Type: Article

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