Living domino liver transplantation in an adult with congenital absence of portal vein

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1285-1288

  Takeichi, Takayuki ^a   Okajima, Hideaki ^a   Suda, Hiroko ^a   Hayashida, Shintarou ^a   Iwasaki, Hironori ^a   Ramirez, Manuel Zeledon ^a   Ueno, Mikako ^a   Asonuma, Katsuhiro ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FAMILIAL AMYLOID POLYNEUROPATHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAFETY; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; AMMONIA; AMYLOID NEUROPATHIES; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 27244442079     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20561     Document Type: Article

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