Recipient age affects long-term outcome and hepatitis C recurrence in old donor livers following transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1288-1295

  Selzner, Markus ^a   Kashfi, Arash ^a   Selzner, Nazia ^a   McCluskey, Stuart ^a   Greig, Paul D ^a   Cattral, Mark S ^a   Levy, Gary A ^a   Lilly, Les ^a   Renner, Eberhard L ^a   Therapondos, George ^a   Adcock, Lesley E ^a   Grant, David R ^a   McGilvray, Ian D ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT VIRUS INFECTION; REPERFUSION INJURY; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70350556841     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21828     Document Type: Article

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