Late mortality from thrombotic microangiopathy after liver transplantation: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 345-348

  Akamatsu, Nobuhisa ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^a   Tamura, Sumihito ^a   Togashi, Junichi ^a   Kaneko, Junichi ^a   Makuuchi, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatitis C virus; Live donor liver transplantation; Long term survival; Thrombotic microangiopathy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; RIBAVIRIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE REPORT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ERYTHROCYTE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN DONOR; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; PLASMAPHERESIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PURPURA, THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC;

EID: 33947638869     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3394-3     Document Type: Article

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