Outflow block secondary to stenosis of the inferior vena cava following living-donor liver transplantation?

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 215-219

  Mizuno, Shugo ^a   Yokoi, Hajime ^a   Yamagiwa, Kentaro ^a   Tabata, Masami ^a   Isaji, Shuji ^a   Yamakado, Koichiro ^a   Takeda, Kan ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gianturco Z stent; Inferior vena cava stenosis; Living donor liver transplantation; Outflow block

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES FLUID; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CAVOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ASCITES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 15844413348     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2004.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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