Left-sided grafts for living-donor liver transplantation and split grafts for deceased-donor liver transplantation: Their impact on long-term survival

Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-52

  Hori, Tomohide ^a,b   Uemoto, Shinji ^a   Gardner, Lindsay B ^b   Sibulesky, Lena ^b   Ogura, Yasuhiro ^a   Nguyen, Justin H ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b Division of Transplant Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEASED DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; RAT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL PREDICTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CADAVER; CHILD; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856727278     PISSN: 22107401     EISSN: 2210741X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinre.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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