Critical use of extended criteria donor liver grafts in adult-to-adult whole liver transplantation: A single-center experience

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 220-227

  Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a   Vizzini, Giovanni ^a   Biondo, Domenico ^a   Mandalà, Lucio ^a   Volpes, Riccardo ^a   Palazzo, Ugo ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 39449138744     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21359     Document Type: Article

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