Biomedical Engineering

Studies from University of Washington provide new data on biomedical engineering

Published in Blood Weekly, January 28th, 2010

According to a study from the United States, "Quality of life (goL) is an outcome criterion of increasing importance after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The background of this development is the dramatic improvement in patient survival rates over the past two decades combined with the question of e quality of this survival."

"Among 339 OLT performed in Kiel since 1987, 123 recipients (70 males, 53 females) of mean age 56.7 +/- 13.1 years who underwent transplantation between August 1992 and June 2007 were subjected to European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) quality of Life questionnaire (QLQ) C30 plus a liver transplant specific...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-01-28)

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