Survival after liver transplantation in the United States: a disease-specific analysis of the UNOS database.

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Published in Liver Transpl on July 01, 2004

Authors

Mark S Roberts1, Derek C Angus, Cindy L Bryce, Zdenek Valenta, Lisa Weissfeld

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Decision Sciences and Clinical Systems Modeling, Division of General Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Center for Research on Health Care, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. robertsm@upmc.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Removable Intraductal Stenting in Duct-to-duct Biliary Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation (BILIDRAINT) | NCT02356939

Safety Study of Ornithine Phenylacetate to Treat Patients With Acute Liver Failure (STOP-ALF) | NCT01548690

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