Outcomes after living donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure in Japan: Results of a nationwide survey

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1069-1077

  Yamashiki, Noriyo ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Nakayama, Nobuaki ^b   Oketani, Makoto ^c   Umeshita, Koji ^d,e   Uemoto, Shinji ^e,f   Mochida, Satoshi ^b   Tsubouchi, Hirohito ^c   Kokudo, Norihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Japanese Liver Transplantation Society   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; DRUG ALLERGY INDUCED HEPATITIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LATE ONSET HEPATIC FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865605070     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23469     Document Type: Article

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