Liver transplantation with donors over the expected lifespan in the model for end-staged liver disease era: Is Mother Nature punishing us?

Liver International

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1054-1061

  Máthé, Zoltan ^a   Paul, Andreas ^a   Molmenti, Ernesto P ^b   Vernadakis, Spiridon ^a   Klein, Christian G ^a   Beckebaum, Susanne ^a   Treckmann, Jürgen W ^a   Cicinnati, Vito R ^a   Kóbori, László ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor; ECD; Elderly; Expanded donor criteria; Extended criteria donor; Life expectancy; Liver transplantation; Marginal donor; Octogenarians; Septuagenarians

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960082706     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2011.02546.x     Document Type: Article

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