Spontaneous fracture of allograft and massive hemorrhage after liver transplantation from a donor with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome [6]

Transplantation

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 244-245

  Swenson, Brian R ^a   Sanfey, Hilary A ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROCOAGULANT;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALLOGRAFT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; EHLERS DANLOS SYNDROME; GRAFT FAILURE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ADULT; EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 33846608626     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000244342.18104.37     Document Type: Letter

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