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What graft and patient factors would increase the risk of early graft failure?

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Hepatology · Mount Sinai Hospital
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Patients who have had previous abdominal surgery, especially in the setting of portal hypertension, might have an increased transfusion requirement and periods of liver hypoperfusion, so may thus be at risk for early raft dysfunction. Any other recipient feature that could be expected to increase th...

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