Expanding the donor pool for liver transplantation in the setting of an "opt-out" scheme - 3 Years after new legislation

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 315-321

  Lee, Victor T W ^a   Chan, Chung Yip ^b   Ganpathi, Iyer Shridhar ^a   Chang, Stephen ^a   Mak, Kenneth S W ^a   Prabhakaran, K ^c   Madhavan, Krishnakumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Liver transplant; Marginal livers; New legislation; Opt out scheme

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECEASED DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMED CONSENT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SINGAPORE; SURGEON;

EID: 65749120917     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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