Acta cirúrgica brasileira
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Acta cirúrgica brasileira · Nov 2012
Postoperative kidney injury does not decrease survival after liver transplantation.
To explore the effect of acute kidney injury (AKI) on long-term survival after conventional orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) without venovenous bypass (VVB). ⋯ The occurrence of postoperative acute kidney injury did not independently decrease patient survival after orthotopic liver transplantation without venovenous bypass in this data from northeast Brazil.