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SUBMITTER: Wertheim JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3166424 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20110614 9
Liver transplantation is the gold standard of care in patients with end-stage liver disease and those with tumors of hepatic origin in the setting of liver dysfunction. From 1988 to 2009, liver transplantation in the United States grew 3.7-fold from 1713 to 6320 transplants annually. The expansion of liver transplantation is chiefly driven by scientific breakthroughs that have extended patient and graft survival well beyond those expected 50 years ago. The success of liver transplantation is now ...[more]