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Diagnosis of morbid obesity may not impact healthcare utilization for orthotopic liver transplantation: A propensity matched study

AIM: To study mortality, length of stay, and total charges in morbidly obese adults during index hospitalization for orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS: The Nationwide Inpatient Sample was queried to obtain demographics, healthcare utilization, post orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) comp...

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Autores principales: Peck, Joshua R, Latchana, Nicholas, Michaels, Anthony, Hanje, Adam J, Hinton, Alice, Elkhammas, Elmahdi A, Black, Sylvester M, Mumtaz, Khalid
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5411954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515845
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v9.i12.595