Current status of living donor small bowel transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 346-348

  Tzvetanov, Ivo G ^a   Oberholzer, Jose ^a   Benedetti, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Intestinal transplantation; Living donor; Transplant outcomes

Indexed keywords

DONOR SELECTION; ENTEROPATHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INTESTINAL FAILURE; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77953293569     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e3283398fa4     Document Type: Review

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