Venous-right atrial bypass for superior vena cava thrombosis during orthotopic liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 471-472

  Pinna, Antonio D ^a,c   Sugitani, Atsushi ^a   Thistlethwaite, Patricia ^b   Kang, Yoogoo ^b   Marongiu, Luigi ^a   Todo, Satoru ^a   Starzl, Thomas E ^a   Fung, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031024516     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199702150-00024     Document Type: Article

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