Tissue-engineered patch for the reconstruction of inferior vena cava during living-donor liver transplantation

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 789-793

  Toshimitsu, Yasuko ^a   Miyazawa, Mitsuo ^a,c   Torii, Takahiro ^a   Koyama, Isamu ^a   Ikada, Yoshito ^b  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUZUKA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioabsorbable polymer; IVC patch; Living donor liver transplantation; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BODY WEIGHT; DEFORMITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM; HEPATIC VEIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYBRID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECIPIENT; STENOSIS; SURVIVAL; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POLYMERS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 21244490827     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gassur.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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