Survival Benefit-Based Deceased-Donor Liver Allocation
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Survival benefit-based deceased-donor liver allocation.
Currently, patients awaiting deceased-donor liver transplantation are prioritized by medical urgency. Specifically, wait-listed chronic liver failure patients are sequenced in decreasing order of Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score. To maximize lifetime gained through liver transplantation, posttransplant survival should be considered in prioritizing liver waiting list candidates. We...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1600-6135,1600-6143
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02571.x