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

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    Overall dropout rates for HCC and non-HCC candidates, listed 4/14/04-12/31/07 on the UNOS/OPTN liver transplant waiting list using a competing risks statistical technique. All calculations are done fr

    Overall dropout rates for HCC and non-HCC candidates, listed 4/14/04-12/31/07 on the UNOS/OPTN liver transplant waiting list using a competing risks statistical technique. All calculations are done from time of listing for non HCC patients and from time of first HCC application acceptance for HCC patients. (courtesy of Dr. Erick Edwards, used with permission.)

☆ 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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