Hepatic venous outflow obstruction after right lateral sector living-donor liver transplantation, treated by insertion of an expandable metallic stent

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 228-231

  Tanimoto, Yoshisato ^a   Tashiro, Hirotaka ^a   Itamoto, Toshiyuki ^a   Toyota, Naoyuki ^a   Kohashi, Toshihiko ^a   Amano, Hironobu ^a   Ohdan, Hideki ^a   Ishiyama, Kohei ^a   Oshita, Akihiko ^a   Asahara, Toshimasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Expandable metallic stent; Hepatic venous outflow; Obstruction; Right lateral sector

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; LAMIVUDINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE LEAKAGE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVING DONOR; OPERATION DURATION; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; STENT; THROMBOSIS;

BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 42049085308     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-007-1234-5     Document Type: Article

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