Infectious complications in living-donor liver transplant recipients: A 9-year single-center experience

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 316-324

  Kim, Y J ^a   Kim, S I ^a,b   Wie, S H ^a   Kim, Y R ^a   Hur, J A ^a   Choi, J Y ^a   Yoon, S K ^a   Moon, I S ^a   Kim, D G ^a   Lee, M D ^a   Kang, M W ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Infection; Living donor liver transplant; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; MEROPENEM; NYSTATIN; SULPERAZON; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYCOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

BACTEREMIA; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; KOREA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING;

EID: 52449117399     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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