Fulminant hepatic failure in children: Superior and durable outcomes with liver transplantation over 25 years at a single center

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 484-491

  Farmer, Douglas G ^a,b   Venick, Robert S ^a   McDiarmid, Sue V ^a   Duffy, John P ^a   Kattan, Omar ^a   Hong, Johnny C ^a   Vargas, Jorge ^a   Yersiz, Hasan ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; ISCHEMIA; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70249091507     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b480ad     Document Type: Article

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