Biliary cast syndrome: Literature review and a single centre experience in liver transplant recipients

Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases International

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-303

  Srinivasaiah, Narasimhaiah ^a   Reddy, Mettu Srinivas ^a   Balupuri, Schlok ^a   Talbot, David ^a   Jaques, Bryon ^a   Manas, Derek ^a  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biliary cast syndrome; Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE DUCT RECONSTRUCTION; BILIARY CAST SYNDROME; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CASE REPORT; CAST REMOVAL; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; HYPEROXALURIA; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; JAUNDICE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TOXICITY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEPSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; BILE DUCT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNDROME;

EID: 46049099790     PISSN: 14993872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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