Explanted portal vein grafts for middle hepatic vein tributaries in living-donor liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 836-841

  Ikegami, Toru ^a,b   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congestion; Liver transplantation; Living donor; Middle hepatic vein; Portal vein; Right lobe

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; PROTHROMBIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CAVA VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PORTAL VEIN GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN GRAFT; AGED; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER VEIN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BILIRUBIN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 38449118091     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000296483.89112.4c     Document Type: Article

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