The clinical significance of the arterial ketone body ratio as an early indicator of graft viability in human liver transplantation.

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Published in Transplantation on January 01, 1991

Authors

K Asonuma1, S Takaya, R Selby, R Okamoto, Y Yamamoto, T Yokoyama, S Todo, K Ozawa, T E Starzl

Author Affiliations

1: Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.

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