Donor selection for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: Well begun is half done

Transplantation

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 501-506

  Sharma, Amit ^a   Ashworth, April ^a   Behnke, Martha ^a   Cotterell, Adrian ^a   Posner, Marc ^a   Fisher, Robert A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Donor evaluation; Donor selection; Liver transplantation; Living donor transplantation; Right lobe liver donation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED DONOR WITHDRAWAL; ATTITUDE; BILIARY TRACT MALFORMATION; BODY MASS; DONOR RELUCTANCE; DONOR SELECTION; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOPHILIA;

END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOPHILIA; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84873408866     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318274aba1     Document Type: Article

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