Safe use of hepatic allografts from donors older than 70 years

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 62-65

  Emre, Sukru ^a,b   Schwartz, Myron E ^a   Altaca, Gulum ^a   Sethi, Paul ^a   Fiel, M Isabel ^b   Guy, Stephen R ^a   Kelly, Dympna M ^a   Sebastian, Anthony ^a   Fisher, Adrian ^a   Eickmeyer, Denise ^b   Sheiner, Patricia A ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SAFETY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 8944231651     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199607150-00013     Document Type: Article

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