Massive gastrointestinal hemorrhage due to rupture of a donor pancreatic artery pseudoaneurysm in a pancreas transplant patient

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-111

  Green, Bryan T ^a   Tuttle Newhall, Janet ^a   Suhocki, Paul ^a   Smith, Stephen R ^a   O'Connor, J Barry ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal bleeding; Pancreas transplant; Pancreatic pseudoaneurysm

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; FALSE ANEURYSM; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMATOCHEZIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PANCREAS DISEASE; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 1042304247     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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