Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) decreases the shortage of liver grafts for patients in need of a liver transplant, but it involves 2 patients: a recipient and a living donor. Despite the magnitude of the procedure for LDLT donors, only a few studies have investigated the effect of LDLT on
Donor quality of life after living donor liver transplantation: a prospective study
โ Scribed by Junichi Togashi; Yasuhiko Sugawara; Sumihito Tamura; Noriyo Yamashiki; Junichi Kaneko; Taku Aoki; Kiyoshi Hasegawa; Yoshifumi Beck; Masatoshi Makuuchi; Norihiro Kokudo
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 267 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1868-6974
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