Partial splenic embolization in the treatment of thrombocytopenia after liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 482-484

  Herrero, J Ignacio ^a   Sangro, Bruno ^a   Quiroga, Jorge ^a   Bilbao, José I ^a   Yuste, José R ^a   Longo, Jesús ^a   Pardo, Fernando ^a   Hernández, José L ^a   Cienfuegos, Javier A ^a   Prieto, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; APROTININ; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFOXITIN; FLUCONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; TRAMADOL;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 0031034331     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199702150-00029     Document Type: Article

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