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Study results from B. Mailey and colleagues in the area of biomedicine published

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 23rd, 2009

"An increasing demand for transplant donor organs has made optimal allocation of resources a priority. Our objective was to evaluate outcomes for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) performed in the United States," scientists writing in the journal American Surgeon report.

"A query of the United Network for Organ Sharing registry between 1988 and 2007 was performed for patients who underwent OLT for all etiologies. were stratified by pathology necessitating OLT and clinical and pathologic factors were compared. Multivariate Cox-regression analysis was used to assess the association of pathology with survival. Of 61,823 patients, 33 per cent (n = 20,305) of...

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