Repeated detection of gas in the portal vein after liver transplantation: A sign of EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferation?

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 332-336

  Wallot, Michael A ^a,b   Klepper, Jörg ^a   Clapuyt, Philippe ^b   Dirsch, Olaf ^a   Malagó, Max ^a   Reding, Raymond ^b   Otte, Jean Bernard ^b   Sokal, Etienne M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Child; EBV; Liver transplantation; PCR; Portal vein gas; Post transplant lymphoproliferative disease; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL VEIN; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

ALAGILLE SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0036670252     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3046.2002.02001.x     Document Type: Article

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