The sequence of revascularization in liver transplantation: It does make a difference

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1566-1570

  Polack, Wojciech G ^a   Porte, Robert J ^b  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; PROTHROMBIN;

ARTERIAL PH; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CELL FUNCTION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REPERFUSION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE;

HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33750968490     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20797     Document Type: Editorial

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