Toward no age limit for liver transplant donors

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1869-1870

  Verzaro, Roberto ^a   Minervini, Marta ^a   Gridelli, Bruno ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANAMNESIS; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; FATTY LIVER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; DONOR; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 49149083074     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31817b00c2     Document Type: Letter

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