Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration in a patient with hyperammonemic encephalopathy after living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1201-1202

  Yokoyama, Satoshi ^a   Kasahara, Mureo ^a   Fukuda, Akinari ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^b   Nosaka, Shunsuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AMMONIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; BILIARY ATRESIA; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MESENTERIC VEINS; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 34548169311     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21111     Document Type: Article

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