Combined heart-liver transplantation; implications for liver-alone wait list mortality

Transplantation. 2014 Sep 15;98(5):e45-7. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000318.

Authors

Michael E Sulewski¹, Joshua H Wolf, Richard Hasz, Sharon West, David Goldberg, Karen L Krok, Kim M Olthoff, Abraham Shaked, Matthew H Levine, Peter L Abt

Affiliation

¹ 1 Department of Surgery University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 2 Department of Surgery Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 3 Gift of Life Institute Philadelphia, PA 4 Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 5 Department of Medicine Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
End Stage Liver Disease / mortality*
End Stage Liver Disease / surgery
Health Care Rationing / standards*
Heart Transplantation / standards*
Humans
Liver Transplantation / standards*
Middle Aged
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Pennsylvania
Retrospective Studies
Severity of Illness Index
Tissue and Organ Procurement
Waiting Lists / mortality*

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