Impact of donor age and recipient status on left-lobe graft for living donor adult liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-88

  Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a,b   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Kayashima, Hiroto ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Donor age; Left lobe graft; Living donor adult liver transplantation; Model for End Stage Liver Disease Score

Indexed keywords

BEZAFIBRATE; BILIRUBIN; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PROTHROMBIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET THERAPY; DONOR SELECTION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW CALORY DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36649021587     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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