Donor intracaval thrombus formation and pulmonary embolism after simultaneous piggyback liver transplantation and aortic valve replacement

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 465-468

  Nishida, Seigo ^a,c   Vaidya, Anil ^a   Franco, Edson ^a   Neff, Guy ^b   Madariaga, Juan ^a   Nakamura, Noboru ^a   Levi, David M ^a   Nery, Jose R ^a   Bolooki, Hooshang ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; The piggyback technique

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ESMOLOL; HEPARIN; PHENYTOIN; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEIZURE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TISSUE DONORS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 10744230610     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.2003.00069.x     Document Type: Article

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