Ascites due to anastomotic stenosis after liver transplantation using the piggyback technique: Treatment with endovascular prosthesis

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 149-151

  Bilbao, José Ignacio ^a   Herrero, José Ignacio ^a   Martínez Cuesta, Antonio ^a   Quiroga, Jorge ^a   Pueyo, Jesús Ciro ^a   Vivas, Isabel ^a   Delgado, Carlos ^a   Pardo, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Budd Chiari syndrome; Liver transplantation; Stents and prostheses

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; KALLIKREIN INHIBITOR; PROPRANOLOL; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BALLOON CATHETER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOPROSTHESIS; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; STENT; VEIN PROSTHESIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ASCITES; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034001796     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709910031     Document Type: Article

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