Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 494-503 , August 2005

Survival After Liver Transplantation in Patients With Hepatic Iron Overload: The National Hemochromatosis Transplant Registry

These data were presented in part at the Plenary Session of the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, 2001.

  • Kris V. Kowdley

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Kris V. Kowdley, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 356174, Seattle, Washington 98195.fax: (206) 598-3884.
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  • David J. Brandhagen

      Affiliations

    • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Robert G. Gish

      Affiliations

    • California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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  • Nathan M. Bass

      Affiliations

    • University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • Jeffrey Weinstein

      Affiliations

    • Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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  • Michael L. Schilsky

      Affiliations

    • New York Weill Cornell Medical Center and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
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  • Robert J. Fontana

      Affiliations

    • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Timothy McCashland

      Affiliations

    • University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska
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  • Scott J. Cotler

      Affiliations

    • Rush University, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Bruce R. Bacon

      Affiliations

    • St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
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  • Emmet B. Keeffe

      Affiliations

    • Stanford University, Stanford, California
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  • Fredric Gordon

      Affiliations

    • Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts
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  • Nayak Polissar

      Affiliations

    • The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistical Consulting, Seattle, Washington; and the NHTR Study Group
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  • the National Hemochromatosis Transplant Registry

Received 22 October 2004 ,Accepted 20 April 2005.

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 Supported by NIH grants DK 54698, DK 02957, and DK 38215.

PII: S0016-5085(05)00874-7

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.05.004

Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 494-503 , August 2005

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