Utility in Treating Kidney Failure in End-Stage Liver Disease With Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation
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Utility in Treating Kidney Failure in End-Stage Liver Disease With Simultaneous Liver-Kidney Transplantation
BACKGROUND Simultaneous liver-kidney (SLK) transplantation plays an important role in treating kidney failure in patients with end-stage liver disease. It used 5% of deceased donor kidney transplanted in 2015. We evaluated the utility, defined as posttransplant kidney allograft lifespan, of this practice. METHODS Using data from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, we compared ou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Transplantation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0041-1337
DOI: 10.1097/tp.0000000000001491