Management of Venous Outflow Complications After Liver Transplantation

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-245

  Darcy, Michael D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

hepatic transplantation; venous anastomotic stenosis; venous angioplasty; venous stenting

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; DEATH; FIBROSIS; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATIC VENOUS STENOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; IMAGING; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INFERIOR VENA CAVA STENOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; RESTENOSIS; STENOSIS; STENT; VARICOSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 37049032107     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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