Intercurrent infection predicts mortality in patients with late hepatic artery thrombosis listed for liver retransplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1353-1360

  Leithead, Joanna Agnes ^a,b   Smith, Matthew R ^a   Materacki, Luke B ^a   Sagar, Vandana M ^a   Gunson, Bridget K ^b   Bramhall, Simon R ^a   Mutimer, David J ^a,b   Shah, Tahir ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILOMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SERRATIA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; FEMALE; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868213462     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23518     Document Type: Article

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