Experience with 122 consecutive liver transplant procedures at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 333-338

  Al Sebayel, Mohammed ^a   Khalaf, Hatem ^a   Al Sofayan, Mohammed ^a   Al Saghier, Mohammed ^a   Abdo, Ayman ^a   Al Bahili, Hamad ^a   El Sheikh, Yasser ^a   Helmy, Ahmed ^a   Medhat, Yasser ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; OXALIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ALOPECIA AREATA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILOMA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CADAVER DONOR; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPEROXALURIA; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAUDI ARABIA; SCAR FORMATION; SEX RATIO; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; WILSON DISEASE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 37149032102     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 13199226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2007.333     Document Type: Article

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