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The ‘Indirect’ Effects of Cytomegalovirus Infection by Freeman, Jr, R. B.

“…Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains the most important infection in the immunocompromized host even in the era of effective therapy. CMV is usually acquired early in…”
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ASTS Recommended Practice Guidelines for Controlled Donation after Cardiac Death Organ Procurement and Transplantation by Reich, D. J., Mulligan, D. C., Abt, P. L., Pruett, T. L., Abecassis, M. M. I., D’Alessandro, A., Pomfret, E. A., Freeman, R. B., Markmann, J. F., Hanto, D. W., Matas, A. J., Roberts, J. P., Merion, R. M., Klintmalm, G. B. G.

“…The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) champions efforts to increase organ donation. Controlled donation after cardiac death (DCD) offers the…”
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Waiting List Removal Rates Among Patients with Chronic and Malignant Liver Diseases by Freeman, R. B., Edwards, E. B., Harper, A. M.

“…Equitable liver allocation should ensure that nonelective removal rates are fairly distributed among waiting candidates. We compared removal rates for adults…”
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Liver and Intestine Transplantation in the United States, 1997–2006 by Freeman, R. B., Steffick, D. E., Guidinger, M. K., Farmer, D. G., Berg, C. L., Merion, R. M.

“…Liver transplantation in 2006 generally resembled previous years, with fewer candidates waiting for deceased donor liver transplants (DDLT), continuing a trend…”
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Characterization of the Withdrawal Phase in a Porcine Donation after the Cardiac Death Model by Rhee, J. Y., Alroy, J., Freeman, R. B.

“…Transplantation of donation after cardiac death (DCD) livers has higher rates of organ failure and complications, specifically ischemic biliary injuries…”
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Valganciclovir Results in Improved Oral Absorption of Ganciclovir in Liver Transplant Recipients by PESCOVITZ, Mark D, RABKIN, John, BANKEN, Ludger, BUHLES, William, BROWN, Frances, MERION, Robert M, PAYA, Carlos V, PIRSCH, John, FREEMAN, R. B, O'GRADY, John, ROBINSON, Charles, ZUNG TO, WREN, Kristina

“…Classifications Services AAC Citing Articles Google Scholar PubMed Related Content Social Bookmarking CiteULike Delicious Digg Facebook Google+ Mendeley Reddit…”
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Transplantation Risks and the Real World: What Does ‘High Risk’ Really Mean? by Freeman, R. B., Cohen, J. T.

“…Candidates for, and recipients of, transplants face numerous risks that receive varying degrees of attention from the media and transplant professionals…”
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Stimulus for Organ Donation: A Survey of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Membership by Rodrigue, J. R., Crist, K., Roberts, J. P., Freeman Jr, R. B., Merion, R. M., Reed, A. I.

“…Federal legislation has been proposed to modify the National Organ Transplant Act in a way that would permit government‐regulated strategies, including…”
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Variation in Health Care Delivery: The Example of Exception Awards in Liver Transplantation by Freeman Jr, R. B.

“…On examining two studies exposing substantial variation in liver transplant exception awards, the author asks, how much variation in health care delivery is…”
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Survival Benefit: Quality Versus Quantity and Trade‐offs in Developing New Renal Allocation Systems by Freeman, R. B.

“…Policy makers in the United States are tackling the development of a new kidney allocation system that will accommodate individual recipient calculations of…”
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The Impact of Variation in Donation After Cardiac Death Policies Among Donor Hospitals: A Regional Analysis by Rhee, J. Y., Ruthazer, R., O’Connor, K., Delmonico, F. L., Luskin, R. S., Freeman, R. B.

“…The Joint Commission requires all hospitals have a policy regarding donation after cardiac death. To this date however, a quantitative analysis of adult…”
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Fetal cells participate over time in the response to specific types of murine maternal hepatic injury by Khosrotehrani, K., Reyes, R.R., Johnson, K.L., Freeman, R.B., Salomon, R.N., Peter, I., Stroh, H., Guégan, S., Bianchi, D.W.

“…BACKGROUND: In humans, fetal microchimeric cells transferred to maternal tissues during pregnancy can adopt a hepatocyte phenotype. Our objective was to…”
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SOFT Endpoints in Liver Transplantation by Freeman, Jr, R. B.

“…Accurately predicting liver transplant outcomes is complicated by numerous variables with only some being captured by the UNOS/OPTN database limiting the…”
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Are Advantaged in the Current Liver Transplant Allocation System by Washburn, K., Edwards, E., Harper, A., Freeman, R.

“…Patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) within Milan criteria receive priority on the liver transplant waiting list (WL) and compete with non‐HCC…”
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Moving Kidney Allocation Forward: The ASTS Perspective by Freeman, R. B., Matas, A. T., Henry, M., Segev, D. L., Kaufman, D. B., Roberts, J. P.

“…In 2008, the United Network for Organ Sharing issued a request for information regarding a proposed revision to kidney allocation policy. This plan described…”
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A Consolidated Biovigilance System for Blood, Tissue and Organs: One Size Does Not Fit All by Pruett, T. L, Blumberg, E. A., Cohen, D. J., Crippin, J. S., Freeman, R. B., Hanto, D. W., Mulligan, D. C., Green, M. D.

“…Biovigilance systems to assess and analyze risks for disease transmission through the transfer of organs, tissue, cells and blood between people is part of…”
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Living-donor versus cadaveric liver transplantation for non-resectable small hepatocellular carcinoma and compensated cirrhosis: A decision analysis by CHENG, Steve J, PRATT, Daniel S, FREEMAN, Richard B, KAPLAN, Marshall M, WONG, John B

“…Cadaveric liver transplantation is effective for nonresectable early hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the scarcity of cadaveric organs has prompted some…”
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Browse or browsing: Investigating goat preferences for feeding posture, feeding height and feed type by Cellier, Marjorie, Nielsen, Birte L, Duvaux-Ponter, Christine, Freeman, Hannah B R, Hannaford, Rina, Murphy, Briar, O'Connor, Emma, Cote, Kevan R L, Neave, Heather W, Zobel, Gosia

“…Goats naturally browse different forages in various postures; this differs from typical farm practice, thus there are opportunities to improve goat welfare by…”
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Excellent Liver Transplant Survival Rates Under the MELD/PELD System by Freeman, R.B., Harper, A., Edwards, E.B.

“…The MELD/PELD (M/P) system for liver allocation was implemented on February 27, 2002, in the United States. Since then sufficient time has elapsed to allow for…”
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The Labour Market in the New Information Economy by FREEMAN, RICHARD B.

“…The extension of information and communication technologies (ICT) to economic activity is changing the labour market in important ways, This article shows that…”
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