Impact of broader sharing on the transport time for deceased donor livers

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1237-1243

  Gentry, Sommer E ^a,b   Chow, Eric K H ^a   Wickliffe, Corey E ^a   Massie, Allan B ^a,c   Leighton, Tabitha ^d   Segev, Dorry L ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COLD ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HELICOPTER; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN DONOR; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME; AGED; CADAVER; DONOR; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; AGED; CADAVER; COLD ISCHEMIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84908554034     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23942     Document Type: Article

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