Is it time to extend liver acceptance criteria for controlled donors after cardiac death?

Transplantation

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1140-1146

  Tariciotti, Laura ^a   Rocha, Chiara ^a   Perera, M Thamara Pr ^a   Gunson, Bridget K ^a,b   Bramhall, Simon R ^a   Isaac, John ^a   Buckels, John A C ^a   Mayer, A David ^a   Muiesan, Paolo ^a   Mirza, Darius F ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donation after cardiac death; Extended criteria; Graft outcome; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS STRICTURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILE LEAKAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HEPATIC ARTERY STENOSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC BILIARY TREE STRICTURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DEATH; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 80855130612     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318232babe     Document Type: Article

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