Does matching donor-recipient age affect long-term survival in liver transplantation?

Annals of Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 708-716

  Dopazo, Cristina ^a   Bilbao, Itxarone ^a   Castells, Lluis ^b   Caralt, Mireia ^a   de Sevilla, Elena Fernández ^a   Lázaro, José Luis ^a   Charco, Ramón ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Morbidity; Mortality

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; TACROLIMUS;

AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD PUGH SCORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROPENSITY SCORE; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; AGED; DONOR SELECTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84996561847     PISSN: 14259524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/AOT.900767     Document Type: Article

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