Adult living donor liver transplantation: Body mass index and MELD score of recipients are independent risk factors for hospital mortality

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 235-241

  Tsui, Tung Yu ^a   Scherer, Marcus N ^a   Schnitzbauer, Andreas A ^a   Schlitt, Hans J ^a   Obed, Aiman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adults; Body mass index; Hospital mortality; Living donor liver transplantation; MELD score

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORING SYSTEM; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JORDAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59449089767     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0348-9     Document Type: Article

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