Biliary cast syndrome following liver transplantation: Predictive factors and clinical outcomes

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1466-1472

  Gor, Niraj V ^a   Levy, Ronald M ^a   Ahn, Joseph ^a   Kogan, Dmitriy ^a   Dodson, S Forrest ^a   Cohem, Stanley Martin ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE CAST SYNDROME; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GALLSTONE FORMATION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE DONORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849159816     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21492     Document Type: Article

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