Donor age and operational tolerance in living donor liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 244-245

  Sanada, Yukihiro ^a,b   Kawano, Youichi ^b,c   Ishikawa, Naoshi ^b   Aida, Junko ^b   Nakamura, Ken Ichi ^b   Izumiyama Shimomura, Naotaka ^b   Urahashi, Taizen ^a   Ihara, Yoshiyuki ^a   Okada, Noriki ^a   Yamada, Naoya ^a   Hirata, Yuta ^a   Takubo, Kaiyo ^b   Mizuta, Koichi ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; TELOMERE; ADULT; BIOPSY; GRANDPARENT; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; PARENT; PILOT STUDY; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOPSY; GRANDPARENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PARENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84921450101     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/petr.12431     Document Type: Letter

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