Liver transplantation using elderly donors: A risk factor analysis

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 270-276

  Kim, Dae Y ^a,b   Moon, Jang ^b   Island, Eddie R ^b   Tekin, Akin ^b   Ganz, Susan ^b   Levi, David ^b   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^b   Nishida, Seigo ^b   Tzakis, Andreas G ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly donor; Expanded criteria; Liver transplantation; Risk factor; Survival

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN INCISION; STAGING; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953315769     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01222.x     Document Type: Article

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