Use of model for end-stage liver disease exception points for early liver transplantation and successful reversal of hepatic myelopathy with a review of the literature.

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Published in Liver Transpl on July 01, 2010

Authors

Cary Caldwell1, Norman Werdiger, Sofia Jakab, Michael Schilsky, Antonios Arvelakis, Sanjay Kulkarni, Sukru Emre

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Section of Digestive Disease, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. cary.caldwell@yale.edu

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