Liver transplantation

Gut and Liver

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 145-165

  Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Deceased donor liver transplantation; Liver transplantation; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ASIA; BONE DISEASE; CADAVER DONOR; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OBESITY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SELECTION; REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR; VASCULAR DISEASE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 70349303383     PISSN: 19762283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5009/gnl.2009.3.3.145     Document Type: Review

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