The Italian survival calculator to optimize donor to recipient matching and to identify the unsustainable matches in liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 294-301

  Avolio, Alfonso W ^a   Agnes, Salvatore ^a   Cillo, Umberto ^b   Lirosi, Maria C ^a   Romagnoli, Renato ^c   Baccarani, Umberto ^d   Zamboni, Fausto ^e   Nicolini, Daniele ^f   Donataccio, Matteo ^g   Perrella, Alessandro ^h   Ettorre, Giuseppe M ⁱ   Romano, Marina ^h   Morelli, Nicola ^j   Vennarecci, Giovanni ⁱ   De Waure, Chiara ^a   Fagiuoli, Stefano ^k   Burra, Patrizia ^l   Cucchetti, Alessandro ^m  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Azienda Universitagrave di Padova   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^e DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^h Cardarelli University Hospital   (Italy)

ⁱ SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^k OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

D MELD; ethics; expansion of donor pool; marginal donors; MELD; outcome analyses; selection criteria

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ALGORITHM; CALCULATOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECIPIENT; REGISTRATION; RETRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVALUATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DONOR SELECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; ITALY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857060793     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2011.01423.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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