Successful treatment of small-for-size syndrome in adult-to-adult living-related liver transplantation: Single center series

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 761-766

  Gruttadauria, Salvatore ^a,b   Mandala, Lucio ^a,b   Miraglia, Roberto ^a   Caruso, Settimo ^a   Minervini, Marta Ida ^a   Biondo, Domenico ^a   Volpes, Riccardo ^a   Vizzini, Giovanni ^a   Marsh, J Wallis ^b   Luca, Angelo ^a   Marcos, Amadeo ^b   Gridelli, Bruno ^a,b  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Living related liver transplantation; Small for size syndrome; Splenic artery embolization

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHOLESTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; PORTAL HYPERFUSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN WEIGHT; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENIC ARTERY; SYNDROME;

EID: 35848935649     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2007.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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