Graft size, donor age, and patient status are the indicators of early graft function after living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1007-1013

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

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; GALACTOSYLNEOGLYCOALBUMIN TC 99M;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TECHNETIUM TC 99M PENTETATE; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 48949120145     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21462     Document Type: Article

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