Successful liver transplantation in a patient with sickle-cell anaemia

Transplant International

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 434-436

  Van den Hazel, Sven J ^a   Metselaar, Herold J ^a   Tilanus, Hugo W ^a   IJzermans, Jan N ^a   Groenland, Theo H N ^a   Visser, Loes ^a   De Man, Robert A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Liver; Peri operative management; Sickle cell anaemia; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEFEROXAMINE; HEMOGLOBIN S; HYDROXYUREA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037673308     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00147-003-0567-5     Document Type: Article

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