Preoperative proximal splenic artery embolization: A safe and efficacious portal decompression technique that improves the outcome of live donor liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 947-955

  Umeda, Yuzo ^a   Yagi, Takahito ^a   Sadamori, Hiroshi ^a   Matsukawa, Hiroyoshi ^a   Matsuda, Hiroaki ^a   Shinoura, Susumu ^a   Iwamoto, Takayuki ^a   Satoh, Daisuke ^a   Iwagaki, Hiromi ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embolization; Ligation; Liver transplantation; Portal hypertension; Splenic artery

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL SPLENIC ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; SAFETY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SPLENIC ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 35148880660     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2007.00513.x     Document Type: Article

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