Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 468-476 , August 2008

Donor Morbidity After Living Donation for Liver Transplantation

Presented in part at the World Transplant Congress, Boston, Massachusetts, July 2006.

  • Rafik M. Ghobrial

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Rafik M. Ghobrial, MD, PhD, c/o A2ALL Study—Data Coordinating Center, 315 W. Huron, Suite 240, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4262. fax: 734-996-6620.
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  • Chris E. Freise

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • James F. Trotter

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
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  • Lan Tong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Akinlolu O. Ojo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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  • Jeffrey H. Fair

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Robert A. Fisher

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
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  • Jean C. Emond

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Columbia Medical Center, New York, New York
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  • Alan J. Koffron

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois
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  • Timothy L. Pruett

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
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  • Kim M. Olthoff

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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  • A2ALL Study Group

Received 15 November 2007 ,Accepted 17 April 2008.

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 Supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIDDK grant numbers U01-DK62536, U01-DK62444, U01-DK62467, U01-DK62483, U01-DK62484, U01-DK62494, U01-DK62496, U01-DK62498, U01-DK62505, U01-DK62531); the American Society of Transplant Surgeons; and the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources, and Services Administration.

 Conflicts of interest: No conflicts of interest exist.

 This is publication number 9 of the Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study.

PII: S0016-5085(08)00670-7

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.04.018

Gastroenterology
Volume 135, Issue 2 , Pages 468-476 , August 2008

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