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Publication Information

PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2005
Affiliation
Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. kim.olthoff@uphs.upenn.edu
Authors
A2ALL Study Group, Abecassis MM, Emond JC, Everhart JE, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Ghobrial RM, Gillespie BW, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Kam I, Merion RM, Olthoff KM, Pruett TL
Studies
Citation
Olthoff KM, Merion RM, Ghobrial RM, Abecassis MM, Fair JH, Fisher RA, Freise CE, Kam I, Pruett TL, Everhart JE, Hulbert-Shearon TE, Gillespie BW, Emond JC, A2ALL Study Group. Outcomes of 385 adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant recipients: a report from the A2ALL Consortium. Ann Surg 2005 Sep;242(3):314-23, discussion 323-5.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to characterize the patient population with respect to patient selection, assess surgical morbidity and graft failures, and analyze the contribution of perioperative clinical factors to recipient outcome in adult living donor liver transplantation (ALDLT).