Early graft failure due to a veno-occlusive disease after a pediatric living donor liver transplantation

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 301-304

  Izaki, Toshiya ^a   Inomata, Yukihiro ^a,c   Asonuma, Katsuhiro ^a   Okajima, Hideaki ^a   Ohshiro, Hajime ^a   Ueno, Mikako ^a   Hamamoto, Rieko ^a   Iyama, Ken Ichi ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Living donor liver transplantation; Rejection; Veno occlusive disease

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CASE REPORT; GRAFT FAILURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION;

GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEPATIC VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE;

EID: 2942741037     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2004.00171.x     Document Type: Article

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