Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 3 , Pages 392-404 , March 2010

Survival benefit of liver transplantation and the effect of underlying liver disease

  • Ana L. Gleisner, MD

      Affiliations

    • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • Department of Surgery, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
    • ,
  • Alvaro Muñoz, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Ajacio Brandao, MD

      Affiliations

    • Liver Transplantation Group, Complexo Hospitalar, Santa Casa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saú de de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • ,
  • Claudio Marroni, MD

      Affiliations

    • Liver Transplantation Group, Complexo Hospitalar, Santa Casa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saú de de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • ,
  • Maria Lucia Zanotelli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saú de de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • Liver Transplantation Group, Complexo Hospitalar, Santa Casa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • ,
  • Guido Gracco Cantisani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saú de de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • Liver Transplantation Group, Complexo Hospitalar, Santa Casa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • ,
  • Leila Beltrami Moreira, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saú de de Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
    • ,
  • Michael A. Choti, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery and Oncology, Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe Street, Halsted 614, Baltimore, MD 21287

,Accepted 2 October 2009.

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 Dr Pawlik is supported by Grant Number 1KL2RR025006-01 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Dr Gleisner has been supported by a UICC American Cancer Society Beginning Investigators Fellowship funded by the American Cancer Society and by a grant from CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior). The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of NCRR or NIH.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.006

Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 3 , Pages 392-404 , March 2010

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