Cryptogenic fulminant hepatic failure in infancy: Report of 2 cases with unique vascular obstructive changes in native livers

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1418-1422

  Shimojima, Naoki ^a   Shibata, Rie ^a   Hoshino, Ken ^a   Kawachi, Shigeyuki ^a   Tanabe, Minoru ^a   Wakabayashi, Go ^a   Shimazu, Motohide ^a   Sakamoto, Michiie ^a   Morikawa, Yasuhide ^a   Kitajima, Masaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VEIN; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 33748806005     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20850     Document Type: Article

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