Journal of Hepatology
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 664-673, April 2009

Who should get a liver graft?☆

  • Richard B. Freeman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Transplantation, Box 40, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 617 636 5592; fax: +1 617 636 8228.
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  • Neville Jamieson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge, UK
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  • Douglas E. Schaubel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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  • Robert J. Porte

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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  • Federico G. Villamil

      Affiliations

    • Liver Unit, Favaloro Foundation and University, Buenos Aires, Argentina

published online 12 February 2009.

Special Section Editor and Associate Editor: Pierre-Alain Clavien

Abbreviations: NSCAG, National Specialist Commissioning Advisory Group, UKELD, United Kingdom Model for End-stage Liver Disease, MELD, Model for End-stage Liver Disease, PELD, Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease Model, OPTN, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, ECD, expanded criteria donor, DCD, donation after cardiac death [non heart beating donor], DRI, donor risk index, HCV, hepatitis C virus, HCC, hepatocellular cancer, ALF, acute liver failure, KCC, King’s College Criteria

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☆ The authors declare that they do not have anything to disclose regarding funding from industries or conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript. NIH funded study (R01 DK-70869).

PII: S0168-8278(09)00073-7

doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2009.01.013

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 50, Issue 4 , Pages 664-673, April 2009

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