Split liver transplantation using extended right grafts: The natural history of segment 4 and its impact on early postoperative outcomes

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 413-422

  Sepulveda, Ailton ^a,b   Scatton, Olivier ^a,c   Tranchart, Hadrien ^a   Gouya, Hervé ^d,e   Perdigao, Fabiano ^a   Stenard, Fabien ^a   Bernard, Denis ^a   Conti, Filomena ^a,e   Calmus, Yvon ^a,e   Soubrane, Olivier ^a,e  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Université Paris Descartes Paris V ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; SPLIT LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859315129     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22479     Document Type: Article

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