Impact of age older than 60 years in living donor liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 166-172

  Kuramitsu, Kaori ^a   Egawa, Hiroto ^a   Keeffe, Emmet B ^b   Kasahara, Mureo ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Sakamoto, Seisuke ^a   Ogawa, Kohei ^a   Oike, Fumitaka ^a   Takada, Yasutugu ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor age; Liver transplantation; Living donor; Recipient age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34547632123     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000269103.87633.06     Document Type: Article

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