Long-term outcome of endoscopic treatment of biliary strictures after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 718-725

  Graziadei, Ivo W ^a   Schwaighofer, Hubert ^a   Koch, Robert ^a   Nachbaur, Karin ^a   Koenigsrainer, Alfred ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLEDOCHODUODENOSTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLESTASIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646438691     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20644     Document Type: Article

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