Outcome of liver transplantation in septuagenarians: A single-center experience

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 775-781

  Lipshutz, Gerald S ^a   Hiatt, Jonathan ^a   Ghobrial, R Mark ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a   Martinez, Monica M ^a   Yersiz, Hasan ^a   Gornbein, Jeffrey ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CALCULATION; COLD ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DISEASE; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548107325     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.8.775     Document Type: Article

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