Varicose bleeding after liver transplantation in a patient with severe portosystemic shunts

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 700-703

  Nosaka, Toshihisa ^a   Teramoto, Kenichi ^a   Tanaka, Yujiro ^a   Igari, Toru ^a   Takamatsu, Susumu ^a   Kawamura, Toru ^a   Inoue, Yoshinori ^a   Goseki, Narihide ^a   Arii, Shigeki ^a   Iwai, Takehisa ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^b   Tanaka, Koichi ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Portal blood flow; Portosystemic shunt; Varix

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; LIGATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RELATIVE;

ADULT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; REOPERATION;

EID: 0042905746     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-002-1125-0     Document Type: Article

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