Successful liver transplantation from an eclamptic donor complicated by the HELLP syndrome [5]

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 440-441

  Nardo, Bruno ^a   Montalti, Roberto ^a   Beltempo, Paolo ^a   Bertelli, Riccardo ^a   Cavallari, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELSIOR;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; HELLP SYNDROME; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0042767981     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000076628.39701.3E     Document Type: Letter

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