Liver Match, a prospective observational cohort study on liver transplantation in Italy: study design and current practice of donor-recipient matching
Abstract
The Liver Match is an observational cohort study that prospectively enrolled liver transplantations performed at 20 out of 21 Italian Transplant Centres between June 2007 and May 2009. Aim of the study is to investigate the impact of donor/recipient matching on outcomes. In this report we describe the study methodology and provide a cross-sectional description of donor and recipient characteristics and of graft allocation- info:eu-repo/semantics/article
- Liver Transplantation
- Patient Selection
- Tissue Donors
- Tissue and Organ Procurement
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Child
- Female
- Fibrosis
- Graft Survival
- Histocompatibility Testing
- Humans
- Italy
- Liver Neoplasms
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Prospective Studies
- Treatment Outcome
- Waiting Lists
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