Successful treatment for a patient with hemophagocytic syndrome after a small-for-size graft liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 55, Issue 82-83, 2008, Pages 359-362

  Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a,b   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Kayashima, Hiroto ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Nishizaki, Takashi ^c   Shimada, Mitsuo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c MATSUYAMA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemophagocytic syndrome; Living donor liver transplantation; Small for size graft

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER LOBECTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOHISTIOCYTOSIS, HEMOPHAGOCYTIC; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 44349190938     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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