Changing donor characteristics in liver transplantation over the last 10 years in canada

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1236-1244

  Sela, Nathalie ^b   Croome, Kris P ^a,b   Chandok, Natasha ^b   Marotta, Paul ^b   Wall, William ^a,b   Hernandez Alejandro, Roberto ^a,b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLD ISCHEMIA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; ADULT; AGED; DONOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLD ISCHEMIA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84886779821     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23718     Document Type: Article

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