Partial splenic embolization for hypersplenism before and after liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2002, Pages 59-61

  Sockrider, Christopher S ^a   Boykin, Kevin N ^a   Green, John ^a   Marsala, Andrew ^a   Mladenka, Mary ^a   McMillan, Robert ^a   Zibari, Gazi B ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypersplenism; Partial splenic embolization; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUTROPENIA; PAIN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 19044394352     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0012.16.s7.9.x     Document Type: Review

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