Functional impairment in older liver transplantation candidates: From the functional assessment in liver transplantation study

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1465-1470

  Wang, Connie W ^a   Covinsky, Kenneth E ^b   Feng, Sandy ^b   Hayssen, Hilary ^a   Segev, Dorry L ^c   Lai, Jennifer C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GAIT; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84977646935     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.24334     Document Type: Article

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