Use of splenic artery embolization to relieve tense ascites following liver transplantation in a patient with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1532-1537

  Chang, Charissa Y ^a   Singal, Ashwani K ^a   Ganeshan, Sri V ^a   Schiano, Thomas D ^a   Lookstein, Robert ^a   Emre, Sukru ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; SPIRONOLACTONE; WARFARIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BACTEREMIA; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NEUTROPENIA; PARACENTESIS; PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENOMEGALY; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ASCITES; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINURIA, PAROXYSMAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; SPLENIC ARTERY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36448968248     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21317     Document Type: Article

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