Status of liver transplantation in infants ≤5 kg

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-9

  Vanatta, Jason M ^a   Esquivel, Carlos O ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXTRAN 40; HEPARIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OKT 3; PROSTAGLANDIN E1; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CHEMOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; GRAFT REJECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846190631     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2006.00627.x     Document Type: Editorial

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