Complications of arterial reconstruction in living donor liver transplantation: A single-center experience

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-251

  Matsuda, Hiroaki ^a   Yagi, Takahito ^a   Sadamori, Hiroshi ^a   Matsukawa, Hiroyoshi ^a   Shinoura, Susumu ^a   Murata, Hiroshi ^a   Umeda, Yuzo ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arterial complications; Doppler ultrasonography; Living donor liver transplantation; Microsurgical reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN; GABEXATE MESILATE; HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; STEROID; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; INFARCTION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 33344464613     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-005-3131-3     Document Type: Article

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