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Functional Status of Patients before Liver Transplantation As a Predictor of Posttransplant Mortality

Mathew Jacob, Lynn P. Copley, James Lewsey, Alex Gimson, Mohamed Rela, Jan van der Meulen

Transplantation · 2005 · 57 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

Considering a patient's functional status or more general measures of a patient's health status before transplantation in addition to conventional clinical factors may help to improve our ability to predict posttransplant survival.

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