Outcome of foreign residents undergoing deceased donor liver transplantation in China: A single-center experience in Taiwan

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1579-1585

  Kuo, Wei Ting ^a   Hsia, Cheng Yuan ^a   Loong, Che Chuan ^a   Liu, Chin Su ^a   Tsai, Hsin Lin ^a   Tseng, Hsiou Shan ^a   Lee, Rheun Chuan ^a   Tsou, Mei Yung ^a   Wu, Chew Wun ^a   Lui, Wing Yiu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CADAVER DONOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHINA; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CADAVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TAIWAN; TISSUE DONORS; TRAVEL; VASCULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72949105108     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21859     Document Type: Article

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