On comparing adult living donor liver transplantation to adult deceased donor liver transplantation: What have we learned?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1269-1270

  Fisher, Robert A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; CADAVER DONOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT VIRUS INFECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; CADAVER; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 6444239252     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20274     Document Type: Editorial

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