Cavoatrial shunt in the treatment of suprahepatic vena cava stricture after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1216-1217

  Molmenti, Ernesto P ^a,c   Grover, Davinder S ^a   Thuluvath, Paul J ^a   Kim, Hyun S ^a   Cameron, Duke E ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^b   Klein, Andrew S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DEXTRAN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CAVOGRAPHY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LEG EDEMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN BYPASS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN SURGERY;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 4544356394     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20191     Document Type: Note

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