Somatostatin and propranolol to treat small-for-size syndrome that occurred despite splenic artery ligation

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 686-689

  Özden, Ilgin ^a,b   Kara, Melih ^a   Pinarbaşi, Binnur ^a   Salmaslioǧlu, Artür ^a   Yavru, Ayşen ^a   Kaymakoǧlu, Sabahattin ^a   Emre, Ali ^a   Bilge, Orhan ^a   Alper, Aydin ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Istanbul University of Istanbul ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Liver transplant; Living donor; Somatotropin release inhibiting factor

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BASILIXIMAB; BILIRUBIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PROPRANOLOL; SOMATOSTATIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEPATIC ARTERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SPLEEN ARTERY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PROPRANOLOL; SOMATOSTATIN; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 38549140193     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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