Adult right lobe live donor liver transplantation without reconstruction of the middle hepatic vein: A single-center study of 109 cases

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 775-777

  Campsen, Jeffrey ^a   Hendrickson, Richard J ^a   Zimmerman, Michael A ^a   Wachs, Michael ^a   Bak, Thomas ^a   Russ, Paul ^a   Bennet, William ^a   Trotter, James ^b   Kam, Igal ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Live donor; Middle hepatic vein; Right hepatic lobe

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; VENOUS CONGESTION;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 40849113107     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31816636ad     Document Type: Article

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