A single center experience of donation after cardiac death liver transplantation in pediatric recipients

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 388-392

  Bartlett, Adam ^a,b   Vara, Roshni ^a   Muiesan, Paolo ^a   Mariott, Paul ^a   Dhawan, Anil ^a   Mieli Vergani, Giorgina ^a   Rela, Mohamed ^a   Heaton, Nigel ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Donation after cardiac death; Liver transplantation; Outcome; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; MEPREDNISONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; DEATH; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950685182     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01206.x     Document Type: Article

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