The value of intravenous heme-albumin and plasmapheresis in reducing postoperative complications of orthotopic liver transplantation for erythropoietic protoporphyria

Transplantation

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 922-928

  Reichheld, James H ^a,b,c   Katz, Eliezer ^a,b   Banner, Barbara F ^a,b   Szymanski, Irma O ^a   Saltzman, John R ^a,b   Bonkovsky, Herbert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMINOID; FERROCHELATASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROPOIETIC PROTOPORPHYRIA; HEME SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033608752     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199903270-00023     Document Type: Article

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