Adult living-related liver donation for acute liver failure: Is it ethically appropriate?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 813-820

  Carlisle, Erica M ^a   Angelos, Peter ^a,b   Siegler, Mark ^b   Testa, Giuliano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Deceased donor transplantation; Ethics; Liver transplantation; Living organ donor

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ETHICS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS;

EID: 83555163755     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2011.01413.x     Document Type: Review

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