Thrombotic Microangiopathy After ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2549-2551

  Oya, H ^a   Sato, Y ^a   Yamamoto, S ^a   Nakatsuka, H ^a   Kobayashi, T ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Kokai, H ^a   Hatakeyama, K ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMAGGLUTININ; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO INCOMPATIBILITY; CASE REPORT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTESTINE HEMATOMA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; BLOOD GROUP INCOMPATIBILITY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA EXCHANGE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 53149110792     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2008.07.117     Document Type: Article

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