Routine intraoperative Doppler sonography in the evaluation of complications after living-related donor liver transplantation

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 483-490

  Choi, Jin Young ^a,b   Lee, Jae Young ^a   Lee, Jeong Min ^a   Kim, Se Hyung ^a   Lee, Min Woo ^c   Han, Joon Koo ^a   Choi, Byung Ihn ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Konkuk University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Intraoperative ultrasound; Liver transplantation; Vascular complications

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE; ULTRAVIST 70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WAVEFORM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 35748982125     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: 10970096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.20384     Document Type: Article

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