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Analysis of donor criteria for the prediction of outcome in clinical liver transplantation.

Year: 1987

Type: article

Abstract: The results of 219 orthotopic human liver transplants performed during 1985 at the University of Pittsburgh were reviewed to determine whether donor parameters could be used to predict the quality of early graft function. Multivariate discriminant analysis demonstrated that traditional parameters of donor assessment are unreliable predictors of poor graft function. Furthermore, 56% of the donors considered poor by conservative selection criteria produced livers with good early posttransplant function. Survival of recipients of primary allografts from donors rated poor was no different than survival of recipients of allografts from donors rated good.

Source: PubMed

Authors: L Makowka, R D Gordon, S Todo, N Ohkohchi, J W Marsh, A G Tzakis, H Yokoi, J Ligush, C O Esquivel, M Satake

Language: English

Topic: Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institutes of Health

Award: ORTHOTOPIC LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

OpenAlex ID: W70676186

FWCI: 12.45

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