Changes in portal vein flow after adult living-donor liver transplantation: Does it influence postoperative liver function?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 564-569

  García Valdecasas, Juan C ^a   Fuster, José ^a   Charco, Ramon ^a   Bombuy, Ernest ^a   Fondevila, Constantino ^a   Ferrer, Joana ^a   Ayuso, Carmen ^b   Taura, Pilar ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RECIPIENT; REPERFUSION; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME;

EID: 0037835446     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50069     Document Type: Article

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