Severe fatty change of the graft liver caused by a portosystemic shunt of mesenteric varices

Transplant International

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 259-262

  Sekido, Hitoshi ^a   Matsuo, Ken ichi ^a   Takeda, Kazuhisa ^a   Morioka, Daisuke ^a   Kubota, Toru ^a   Tanaka, Kuniya ^a   Endo, Itaru ^a   Togo, Shinji ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^b   Shimada, Hiroshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatty liver; Liver dysfunction; Liver transplantation; Mesenteric varix; Portal blood flow; Portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0036937930     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2002.tb00162.x     Document Type: Article

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