Graft type in pediatric liver transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 494-498

  Azouz, Solomon M ^a   Diamond, Ivan R ^a   Fecteau, Annie ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auxiliary liver transplantation; donation after cardiac death; liver transplantation; pediatrics; technical variant grafts

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BODY WEIGHT; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GRAFT NECROSIS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANCY; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION; REVIEW;

CHILD; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81155162617     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32834a8c9c     Document Type: Review

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