Donor and recipient selection leads to good patient and graft outcomes for right lobe split transplantation versus whole graft liver transplantation in adult recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1586-1593

  Sandroussi, Charbel ^a   Crawford, Michael ^a   Lockwood, David S ^a   Tang, Patrick ^a   Gallagher, James P ^a   Pleass, Henry ^a   Strasser, Simone I ^a   Shackel, Nicholas A ^a   McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a   Verran, Deborah J ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72949110546     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21849     Document Type: Article

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