Beyond the limit: Approaching systematic use of nonagenarian donors in liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2016, Pages e37-e38

  Ghinolfi, Davide ^a   De Simone, Paolo ^a   Tincani, Giovanni ^a   Pezzati, Daniele ^a   Filipponi, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; SOFOSBUVIR;

AGED; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84964776823     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0000000000001207     Document Type: Letter

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