The impact of splenectomy or splenic artery ligation on the outcome of a living donor adult liver transplantation using a left lobe graft

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 57, 2004, Pages 625-629

  Shimada, Mitsuo ^a   Ijichi, Hideki ^a   Yonemura, Yusuke ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Shiotani, Satoko ^a   Ninomiya, Mizuki ^a   Terashi, Takahiro ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Suehiro, Taketoshi ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Portal flow; Portal pressure; Small for size graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SEPSIS; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342522667     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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