A meta-analysis of complications following deceased donor liver transplant

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 208, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 605-618

  McElroy, Lisa M ^a,b   Daud, Amna ^b   Davis, Ashley E ^b   Lapin, Brittany ^b   Baker, Talia ^b   Abecassis, Michael M ^b   Levitsky, Josh ^b   Holl, Jane L ^a   Ladner, Daniela P ^a,b  

^a Institute for Public Health and Medicine   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

complications; Liver transplantation; Patient outcomes; Postoperative; Secondary analysis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILE LEAKAGE; CHOLESTASIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DECEASED DONOR; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY STENOSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; META ANALYSIS; MYCOSIS; ORGAN DONOR; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERITONITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; DONOR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT OUTCOMES; REVIEW; SECONDARY ANALYSIS;

LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT OUTCOMES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SECONDARY ANALYSIS;

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84908205714     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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