Utilization, outcomes, and retransplantation of liver allografts from donation after cardiac death: Implications for further expansion of the deceased-donor pool

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 248, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 599-606

  Selck, Fred W ^a   Grossman, Eric B ^a   Ratner, Lloyd E ^b   Renz, John F ^c  

^a New York Organ Donor Network   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECIPIENT; REGISTER; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STROKE; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; DONOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; STATISTICS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; DEATH; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 55449098155     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31818a080e     Document Type: Article

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