Effect of mesocaval shunt on survival of small-for-size liver grafts: Experimental study in pigs

Transplantation

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1737-1740

  Smyrniotis, Vassilios E ^a   Kostopanagiotou, Georgia ^a   Theodoraki, Kassiani ^a   Gamaletsos, Evangelos ^a   Kondi Pafiti, Agathi ^a   Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^a   Arkadopoulos, Nikolaos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART INDEX; HEMODYNAMICS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MESENTERIOCAVAL ANASTOMOSIS; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SWINE;

EID: 0038689038     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000062558.71657.E9     Document Type: Article

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