Patient selection criteria of deceased donor liver transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) are almost completely established. The aim of this study was to establish selection criteria for both patients and donors of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for PBC. We used univariate an
Living donor liver transplantation for patients immunized against human leukocyte antigen
✍ Scribed by Junichi Shindoh, Yasuhiko Sugawara…
- Book ID
- 120914381
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1868-6974
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