Bridging use of plasma exchange and continuous hemodiafiltration before living donor liver transplantation in fulminant Wilson's disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 967-970

  Nagata, Yoshiko ^a   Uto, Hirofumi ^a   Hasuike, Satoru ^a   Ido, Akio ^a   Hayashi, Katsuhiro ^a   Eto, Toshiharu ^b   Hamakawa, Toshiro ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^c   Tsubouchi, Hirohito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b Kushima City Hospital   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemodiafiltration; Hemolytic anemia; Hepatic failure; Plasma exchange; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

CERULOPLASMIN; CHELATING AGENT; COPPER; PENICILLAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CERULOPLASMIN BLOOD LEVEL; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; METHODOLOGY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILSON DISEASE;

EID: 0242659322     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.967     Document Type: Article

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