Improved survival outcomes for liver transplantation

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  McCormick, P Aiden ^a   Qasim, Asghar ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY; VIRUS HEPATITIS; IRELAND; LIVER DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247396150     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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