Can children catch up in growth after living donor liver transplantation?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-460

  El Moghazy, Walid Mohamed ^a,b,c   Ogura, Yasuhiro ^a   Harada, Kouji ^b   Koizumi, Akio ^b   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; LIVER FAILURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950659736     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22010     Document Type: Article

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