Twenty-year survival post-liver transplant: challenges and lessons
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Twenty-year survival post-liver transplant: challenges and lessons.
There have been numerous reports on survival outcomes after liver transplantation with short-term and mid-term follow-up. However, only a few reports are available for 20-year long-term survivors after liver transplantation. In Korea, the first successful deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) in a 13-year-old Wilson's disease patient was performed in 1988, and the first successful living ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Hepatology International
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1936-0533,1936-0541
DOI: 10.1007/s12072-015-9622-4