Domino hepatic transplantation using the liver from a patient with familial amyloid polyneuropathy

Transplantation

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1496-1498

  Stangou, Arie J ^a,b   Heaton, Nigel D ^a,c   Rela, Mohamed ^a,c   Pepys, Mark B ^d   Hawkins, Philip N ^d   Williams, Roger ^a,b  

^a CROMWELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CASE REPORT; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; ASCITES; BILIARY ATRESIA; CADAVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEOVENOUS SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0032525903     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199806150-00016     Document Type: Article

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