Alveolar Echinococcosis induced liver failure: Salvage by liver transplantation in an otherwise uniformly fatal disease

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 664-667

  Haider, Hani H ^a,b   Nishida, Seigo ^a   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Levi, David ^a   Tekin, Akin ^a   Moon, Jang I ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alveolar echinococcosis; Biliary obstruction; Budd Chiari syndrome; Diaphragm invasion; Hepatic artery thrombosis; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENTERIC FEEDING; FOLLOW UP; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPER HEPATIC ARTERY; STENT; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

AGED; ANIMALS; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 52649088816     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2008.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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