Complete recovery from fulminant hepatic failure with severe coma by living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 50, Issue 50, 2003, Pages 515-518

  Kobayashi, Susumu ^a   Ochiai, Takenori ^a   Hori, Seiji ^a   Suzuki, Takao ^a   Shimizu, Takanori ^a   Gunji, Yoshio ^a   Shimada, Hideaki ^a   Kanazawa, Masaki ^a   Ogawa, Atsushi ^a   Kohno, Yoichi ^a   Hirasawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Oda, Shigeto ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fulminant hepatic failure; Hepatic coma; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEPATIC COMA; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECIPIENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE;

EID: 0037350607     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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