Scoring short-term mortality after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 138-146

  Wong, Chung Shun ^a,b   Lee, Wei Chen ^c   Jenq, Chang Chyi ^c   Tian, Ya Chung ^c   Chang, Ming Yang ^c   Lin, Chan Yu ^c   Fang, Ji Tseng ^c   Yang, Chih Wei ^c   Tsai, Ming Hung ^c   Shih, Hsin Chin ^a,d   Chen, Yung Chang ^c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 75449097855     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21969     Document Type: Article

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