"Rescue allocation offers" in liver transplantation: Is there any reason to reject "unwanted" organs?

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1516-1517

  Doenecke, Axel ^a   Scherer, Marcus N ^a   Tsui, Tung Yu ^a,b   Schnitzbauer, Andreas A ^a   Schlitt, Hans Jürgen ^a   Obed, Aiman ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended donor criteria; Liver transplantation; Marginal donor; Rescue allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 78649277802     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365521.2010.510577     Document Type: Article

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