Successful transjugular balloon dilatation of the hepatic vein stenosis causing hypoalbuminemia after pediatric living-donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 54, Issue 78, 2007, Pages 1821-1824

  Kawano, Youichi ^a   Akimaru, Koho ^a   Taniai, Nobuhiko ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Yokomuro, Shigeki ^a   Mamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Mizuguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Shimizu, Tetsuya ^a   Takahashi, Tsubasa ^a   Tajiri, Takashi ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic vein stenosis; Hyaluronic acid; Hypoalbuminemia; Interventional radiology; Living donor liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; HEPATIC VEIN STENOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY; STENOSIS;

BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 35948955164     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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