Incidence of prolonged length of stay after orthotopic liver transplantation and its influence on outcomes

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-279

  Smith, Jenny O ^a   Shiffman, Mitchell L ^a   Behnke, Martha ^a   Stravitz, R Todd ^a   Luketic, Velimir A ^a   Sanyal, Arun J ^a   Heuman, Doug M ^a   Fisher, Robert A ^a   Cotterell, Adrian H ^a   Maluf, Daniel G ^a   Posner, Marc P ^a   Sterling, Richard K ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR AGE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ORGAN DONOR; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRGINIA;

EID: 67649222980     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21731     Document Type: Article

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