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SUBMITTER: Bittermann T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6883120 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bittermann Therese T Hubbard Rebecca A RA Lewis James D JD Goldberg David S DS
American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20190717 12
The use of induction immunosuppression in liver transplantation (LT) remains controversial. This was a retrospective cohort study of adult, first-time liver-alone recipients (N = 69 349) at 114 US centers between 2005 and 2018 using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing. The comparative effectiveness of nondepleting and depleting induction (NDI and DI) was assessed. Overall, 27% of recipients received induction with 65.7% of the variance in the receipt of induction being attributed to t ...[more]