Strategies for improving the outcomes of small-for-size grafts in adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 102-110

  Imura, Satoru ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Morine, Yuji ^a   Kanemura, Hirofumi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Living donor liver transplantation; Small for size graft

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LIGATION; DONOR SELECTION; FATTY LIVER; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; REVIEW; SMALL FOR SIZE GRAFT SYNDROME; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DONOR SELECTION; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; TRANSPLANTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42049110166     PISSN: 09441166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-007-1297-3     Document Type: Review

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