Orthotopic liver transplantation for portosystemic encephalopathy in an adult with congenital absence of the portal vein

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1203-1207

  Wojcicki, Maciej ^a   Haagsma, Elizabeth B ^a   Gouw, Annette S H ^a   Slooff, Maarten J H ^a   Porte, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; CREATININE; GALACTOSE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DETERIORATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FOCAL GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; FOLLOW UP; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEPHRITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PEPTIC ULCER; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREMOR;

COMORBIDITY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 4544326717     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20170     Document Type: Article

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