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Liver Transplantation Today: Indications and Results

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Transplantation of the liver has progressed since the first transplant operation performed in a human by T.E. Starzl [85] to a procedure that has become universally accepted by hepatologists and applied most broadly for numerous indications in end-stage liver disease [93]. Since the statement of the Consensus Development Conference of the National Institute of Health in June 1983 [3] that liver transplantation should be considered a clinical procedure to be applied for more patients, there has been a rapid acceleration in the evolution of transplant operations performed worldwide, reaching annual rates of 1564 in Europe (Fig. 1), similar to those achieved in the USA in 1988 [82].

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Lauchart, W., Viebahn, R. (1992). Liver Transplantation Today: Indications and Results. In: Brunner, G., Mito, M. (eds) Artificial Liver Support. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77359-4_32

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