Living donor liver transplantation for congenital absence of the portal vein in a child with cardiac failure

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2006, Pages e9-

  Sumida, Wataru ^a   Kaneko, Kenitiro ^a   Ogura, Yukio ^a   Tainaka, Takahisa ^a   Ono, Yasuyuki ^a   Seo, Takahiko ^a   Kiuchi, Tetsuya ^a   Ando, Hisami ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac failure; Congenital absence of the portal vein; Liver transplantation; Portosystemic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE; TSUKUBAENOLIDE;

AGENESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CIRCULATION; CLAMP; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

EID: 33750737731     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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