Revisiting the safety of living liver donors by reassessing 441 donor hepatectomies: Is a larger hepatectomy complication-prone?

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 367-374

  Uchiyama, H ^a   Shirabe, K ^a   Nakagawara, H ^a   Ikegami, T ^a   Toshima, T ^a   Soejima, Y ^a   Yoshizumi, T ^a   Yamashita, Y I ^a   Harimoto, N ^a   Ikeda, T ^a   Maehara, Y ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical liver transplantation; donor risk; hepatic resection; living donor transplantation; postoperative complication

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLESTASIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; ILEUS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEFT LATERAL SEGMENTECTOMY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SAFETY; FOLLOW UP; LIVER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 84893392076     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.12559     Document Type: Article

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