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Fighting Mortality in the Waiting List: Liver Transplantation in North America, Europe, and Asia
- Source :
- Annals of Hepatology, Vol 16, Iss 4, Pp 480-486 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Liver disease is a major cause of mortality worldwide. Liver transplantation (LT) is the most effective treatment for end stage liver disease. Available resources and social circumstances have led to different ways of implementing LT around the world. The experience with pediatric LT corroborates the hypothesis that a combination of surgical strategies can be beneficial. The goal of this manuscript is to describe the strategies used by LT centers in North America, Europe and Asia and how these strategies can be applied to reduce waitlist mortality and increase access to LT.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Asia
Time Factors
Waiting Lists
Waitlist mortality
medicine.medical_treatment
Specialties of internal medicine
030230 surgery
Liver transplantation
Health Services Accessibility
Donor Selection
End Stage Liver Disease
03 medical and health sciences
Liver disease
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Environmental protection
Living Donors
medicine
Humans
Effective treatment
Intensive care medicine
Hepatology
Donor selection
business.industry
Living donor liver transplantation
Chronic liver disease
Ssplit liver transplantation
Age Factors
End stage liver disease
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Europe
Treatment Outcome
RC581-951
Waiting list
North America
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16652681
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of Hepatology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....567420dd3466b8a6b4058eafaaf9123a