Results after spouse donations in living-donor liver transplantation: Does HLA matching impact long-term survival?

Surgery. 2016 Jul;160(1):251-252. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.02.016. Epub 2016 Mar 30.

Authors

Long-Bin Jeng¹, Ashok Thorat², Horng-Ren Yang³, Chun-Chieh Yeh³, Te-Hung Chen³, Shih-Chao Hsu³

Affiliations

¹ Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan. Electronic address: otc@mail.cmuh.org.tw.
² Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
³ Organ Transplantation Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Surgery, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.

PMID: 27038762
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2016.02.016

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adult
Biomarkers / blood
End Stage Liver Disease / immunology
End Stage Liver Disease / mortality
End Stage Liver Disease / surgery*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Graft Rejection / immunology
Graft Survival
HLA Antigens / blood
HLA Antigens / immunology*
Histocompatibility Testing*
Humans
Liver Transplantation / methods*
Liver Transplantation / mortality
Living Donors*
Male
Middle Aged
Retrospective Studies
Spouses*

Substances

Biomarkers
HLA Antigens