Hereditary lysozyme amyloidosis: Spontaneous hepatic rupture (15 years apart) in mother and daughter. Role of emergency liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1152-1155

  Loss, Martin ^a   Ng, Wa S ^a   Karim, Rooshdiya Z ^a   Strasser, Simone I ^a   Koorey, David J ^a   Gallagher, Peter J ^a   Verran, Deborah J ^a   McCaughan, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LYSOZYME; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY LIGATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER RUPTURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENORRHAGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; MURAMIDASE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746011933     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20803     Document Type: Article

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