Liver Transplantation Using Donors Older Than 80 Years: A Single-Center Experience

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1976-1978

  Petridis, I ^a   Gruttadauria, S ^a,b   Nadalin, S ^a   Vigano J ^a   di Francesco, F ^a   Pietrosi, G ^a   Fili', D ^a   Montalbano, M ^a   D'Antoni, A ^a   Volpes, R ^a,b   Arcadipane, A ^a,b   Vizzini, G ^a,b   Gridelli, B ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; LAMIVUDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARREST; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; STEATOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS D; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48049104163     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.05.063     Document Type: Article

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