Graft weight/recipient weight ratio: How well does it predict outcome after partial liver transplants?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1056-1062

  Hill, Mark J ^a   Hughes, Michael ^a   Jie, Tun ^a   Cohen, Melissa ^a   Lake, John ^a   Payne, William D ^a   Humar, Abhinav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT WEIGHT RECIPIENT WEIGHT RATIO; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SPLEEN ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SYNDROME; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350524725     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21846     Document Type: Article

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