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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...
Autores principales: | Peck, Joshua R, Latchana, Nicholas, Michaels, Anthony, Hanje, Adam J, Hinton, Alice, Elkhammas, Elmahdi A, Black, Sylvester M, Mumtaz, Khalid |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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