Prognostic Evaluation of the Donor Risk Index Among a Prospective Cohort of Italian Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1096-1098

  Vitale, A ^a   D'Amico, F ^b   Gringeri, E ^b   Valmasoni, M ^b   Pauletto, A ^b   Bonsignore, P ^b   Bassi, D ^b   D'Amico, F E ^b   Polacco, M ^b   Burra, P ^c   Russo, F ^c   Angeli, P ^c   Poci, C ^c   Feltracco, P ^c   Romano, A ^d   Cillo, U ^b  

^a VENETO INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY IOV IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD ISCHEMIA; DONOR RISK INDEX; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEATOSIS; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549086055     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.03.097     Document Type: Article

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