No country for old livers? Examining and optimizing the utilization of elderly liver grafts

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 669-678

  Halazun, K J ^a,b   Rana, A A ^c   Fortune, B ^a   Quillin, R C ^b   Verna, E C ^b   Samstein, B ^a,b   Guarrera, J V ^b   Kato, T ^b   Griesemer, A D ^b   Fox, A ^b   Brown, R S ^a,b   Emond, J C ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical research practice; delayed graft function; donors and donation; geriatrics; liver transplantation hepatology; organ acceptance; organ procurement and allocation; Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network; recipient selection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER GRAFT; LOW RISK PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DONOR; DONOR SELECTION; FOLLOW UP; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85027570060     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14518     Document Type: Article

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