Living donor liver transplantation with extra-small graft; inflow modulation using splenectomy and temporary portacaval shunt

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 82-83, 2008, Pages 670-672

  Ikegami, Toru ^a,b   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Sanefuji, Kensaku ^a   Kayashima, Hiroto ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Portacaval shunt; Small for size; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS C; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 44349096857     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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