Gender matches in liver transplant allocation: Matched and mismatched male-female donor-recipient combinations; long-term follow-up of more than 2000 patients at a single center

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 184-190

  Schoening, Wenzel N ^a,b   Helbig, Michael ^a   Buescher, Niklas ^a   Andreou, Andreas ^a   Bahra, Marcus ^a   Schmitz, Volker ^a   Pascher, Andreas ^a   Pratschke, Johann ^a   Seehofer, Daniel ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Donor recipient matching; Eurotransplant donor risk index; Gender; Long term outcome

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECIPIENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DONOR; GERMANY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; GERMANY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84962683917     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2015.0211     Document Type: Article

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