Veno-atrial bypass for the operative treatment of septic gas gangrene secondary to delayed hepatic artery thrombosis

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 760-763

  Chan, Gabriel ^a   Tchervenkov, Jean ^a   Cantarovich, Marcelo ^a   Alpert, Eliot ^a   Deschenes, Marc ^a   Ergina, Patrick ^a   Metrakos, Peter ^a   Barkun, Jeffrey ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extra corporeal bypass; Fulminant hepatic failure; Gangrene hepatic artery thrombosis; Liver transplantation; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; GAS GANGRENE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; POLITEF IMPLANT; REOPERATION; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SEPSIS; VENOATRIAL BYPASS;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; GAS GANGRENE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0037531576     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-6143.2003.00129.x     Document Type: Article

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