Prognostic Factors in Patients With Acute Liver Failure Undergoing Live Donor Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2492-2493

  Rajekar, H ^a   Wai, C T ^a   Majeed, T A ^a   Lee, K H ^a   Wong, S Y ^a   Leong, S O ^a   Singh, R ^a   Tay, K H ^a   Soosaynathan, C ^a   Tan, K C ^a  

^a Asian Center for Liver Diseases and Transplantation   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 53149141021     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.07.009     Document Type: Article

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