Safety of patients with a graft to body weight ratio less than 0.8% in living donor liver transplantation using right hepatic lobe without middle hepatic vein

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 59, Issue 114, 2012, Pages 469-472

  Li, Chuan ^a   Mi, Kai ^a   Wen, Tian Fu ^a   Yan, Lu Nan ^a   Li, Bo ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graft to body weight ratio; Living donor liver transplantation; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT TO BODY WEIGHT RATIO; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOG RANK TEST; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEPATIC LOBE; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY WEIGHT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860580078     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge11217     Document Type: Article

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