Changing faces of liver retransplantation: It is all about selection

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-189

  Ghobrial, R Mark ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

AGE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMA; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENDER; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847655527     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21020     Document Type: Editorial

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