Our experience in liver transplantation in patients over 65 yr of age

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-88

  Bilbao, Itxarone ^a   Dopazo, Cristina ^a   Lazaro, Jose Luis ^a   Castells, Luis ^a   Escartin, Alfredo ^a   Lopez, Iñigo ^a   Sapisochin, Gonzalo ^a   Balsells, Joaquin ^a   Margarit, Carlos ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Liver transplantation; Long term survival; Multivariate; Outcome

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549105077     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00749.x     Document Type: Article

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