Rescue allocation for liver transplantation within Eurotransplant: the Heidelberg experience

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue SUPPL.21, 2009, Pages 42-48

  Schemmer, Peter ^a   Nickkholgh, Arash ^a   Gerling, Till ^b   Weitz, Jürgen ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b EUROTRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extended donor criteria; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplantation; Model for end stage liver disease; Rescue allocation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CADAVER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLD ISCHEMIA; EUROPE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 70649096343     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01109.x     Document Type: Review

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