Cost analysis of adult-adult living donor liver transplantation in Tokyo University Hospital

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 184-189

  Sakata, Hiroki ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cost; Liver transplantation; Living donor

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOKYO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959836010     PISSN: 18686974     EISSN: 18686982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-010-0326-9     Document Type: Article

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