The shortage of liver grafts results in the fact that 8% of potential recipients die before receiving a graft. Liver graft division has therefore been proposed to maximize the current available liver graft pool. However, the question of benefit or additional risk for the recipients that this techniq
Expanding the donor pool for liver transplantation
โ Scribed by James F. Trotter
- Book ID
- 107537750
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 322 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-8037
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