The changing liver transplant waitlist: An emerging liver purgatory?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 493-496

  Asrani, Sumeet K ^a   O'Leary, Jacqueline G ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPLANTATION WAITING LIST; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PANCREAS TUMOR; TRENDS; TUMOR GENE;

NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ESOPHAGEAL ACHALASIA; GENES, NEOPLASM; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84923870572     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: 15280012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2015.01.011     Document Type: Editorial

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