Good and Bad Prognosis of Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency in Children: When to List for Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3186-3188

  Bakula, A ^a   Socha, P ^a   Pawlowska, J ^a   Teisseyre, M ^a   Jankowska, I ^a   Kalicinski, P ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA 1-ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POLAND; PROGNOSIS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 37049000774     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.09.046     Document Type: Article

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