Outcomes after liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis are similar to alcoholic cirrhosis: Exploratory analysis from the UNOS database

Hepatology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1398-1405

  Singal, Ashwani K ^a,b   Bashar, Hmoud ^a   Anand, Bhupinderjit S ^c   Jampana, Sarat C ^a   Singal, Vineet ^d   Kuo, Yong Fang ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860002647     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25544     Document Type: Article

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