Pediatric living-donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure: Analysis of 57 cases

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 823-830

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

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

graft loss; outcome; refractory rejection; survival

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILE LEAKAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77954500357     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01059.x     Document Type: Review

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