Understanding the splenic contribution to portal flow: The role splenic artery ligation as inflow modification in living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1186-1188

  Kelly, Dympna M ^a   Miller, Charles ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTHROMBIN;

ARTERY LIGATION; ASCITES; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; LIVING DONOR; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MESENTERIOCAVAL ANASTOMOSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN FUNCTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN DIAMETER;

HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIGATION; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 33746874898     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20880     Document Type: Editorial

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