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PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2015
Affiliation
*Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA †Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI ‡Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, Ann Arbor, MI §Northwestern University Comprehensive Transplant Center, Chicago, IL ¶Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Columbia University, New York, NY ∥Duke University Health System, Durham, NC **Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO ††Division of Transplantation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA ‡‡Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA §§Department of General Surgery, Toronto Hospital, General Division, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ¶¶Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA ∥∥Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO ***Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and †††Department of Transplantation, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
Authors
Abecassis M, Baker T, Beil CA, Berg CL, Burton JR Jr, Emond JC, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Grant DR, Humar A, Kam I, Merion RM, Olthoff KM, Pomfret EA, Samstein B, Shaked A, Smith AR
Studies
Citation
Olthoff KM, Smith AR, Abecassis M, Baker T, Emond JC, Berg CL, Beil CA, Burton JR Jr, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Gillespie BW, Grant DR, Humar A, Kam I, Merion RM, Pomfret EA, Samstein B, Shaked A. Defining long-term outcomes with living donor liver transplantation in North America. Ann Surg 2015 Sep;262(3):465-75; discussion 473-5.

Abstract

To compare long-term survival of living donor liver transplant (LDLT) at experienced transplant centers with outcomes of deceased donor liver transplant and identify key variables impacting patient and graft survival.