Use of elderly donors for liver transplantation: Has the limit been reached?

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 383-387

  Lai, Quirino ^a   Melandro, Fabio ^a   Sandri, Giovanni Battista Levi ^a   Mennini, Gianluca ^a   Corradini, Stefano Ginanni ^b   Merli, Manuela ^b   Berloco, Pasquale Bartolomeo ^a   Rossi, Massimo ^a  

^a Departments of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age; Arterial thrombosis; Graft failure; Octogenarian; Primary non function; Septuagenarian; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ITALY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84055218073     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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