Transient portocaval shunt for a small-for-size graft in living donor liver transplantation [1]

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 262-

  Ikegami, Toru ^a   Imura, Satoru ^a   Arakawa, Yusuke ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LIGATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TISSUE REGENERATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIGATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY;

EID: 39449118303     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21307     Document Type: Letter

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