Outcomes of 5-year survivors of pediatric liver transplantation: Report on 461 children from a north american multicenter registry

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Ng, Vicky Lee ^a   Fecteau, Annie ^a   Shepherd, Ross ^b,c   Magee, John ^d   Bucuvalas, John ^e   Alonso, Estella ^f   McDiarmid, Suzanne ^g   Cohen, Geoff ^h   Anand, Ravinder ^h  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Long term outcome; Renal function; School performance

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; PREDNISONE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; TIME;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PEDIATRICS; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 58249084373     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-1363     Document Type: Article

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