New prediction factors of small-for-size syndrome in living donor adult liver transplantation for chronic liver disease

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-357

  Sanefuji, Kensaku ^a   Iguchi, Tomohiro ^a   Ueda, Shigeru ^a   Nagata, Shigeyuki ^a   Sugimachi, Keishi ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Gion, Tomonobu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Graft to recipient native liver volume ratio; Living donor liver transplantation; Prediction model; Recipient native liver volume; Small for size syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; CHRONIC DISEASE; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649240981     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00985.x     Document Type: Article

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