Outcomes of adult living donor liver transplantation: Comparison of the adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study and the national experience

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 789-797

  Olthoff, Kim M ^a,f   Abecassis, Michael M ^b   Emond, Jean C ^c   Kam, Igal ^d   Merion, Robert M ^e   Gillespie, Brenda W ^e   Tong, Lan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD ISCHEMIA; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959845523     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22288     Document Type: Article

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