A graft to body weight ratio less than 0.8 does not exclude adult-to-adult right-lobe living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1776-1782

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

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71249125694     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21955     Document Type: Article

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