Urgent liver transplantation for Amanita phalloides poisoning

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-108

  Yildiz, Baris Dogu ^a   Abbasoglu, Osman ^a   Saglam, Arzu ^a   Sökmensüer, Cenk ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amanita phalloides; Liver transplantation; Mushroom; Pediatric patient; Plasmapheresis; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMANITA PHALLOIDES; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGESTION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOTOXICOSIS; NAUSEA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMANITA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MUSHROOM POISONING; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 37849000569     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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