Impact of non-congestive graft size in living donor liver transplantation: New indicator for additional vein reconstruction in right liver graft

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1295-1301

  Kamei, Hideya ^a   Fujimoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Nagai, Shunji ^a   Suda, Ryuichiro ^a   Yamamoto, Hidekazu ^a   Kiuchi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; HEPARIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INDOCYANINE GREEN; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVING DONORS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 34648822896     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21231     Document Type: Article

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