Effects of splenectomy on patients under going liver transplantation

National Medical Journal of China

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1240-1243

  Wang, Wei Lin ^a   Gao, Lei ^a   Liang, Ting Bo ^a   Yao, Min Ya ^a   Lu, An Wei ^a   Zheng, Shu Sen ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Infection; Liver transplantation; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747041372     PISSN: 03762491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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