Successful laparoscopic splenectomy after living-donor liver transplantation for thrombocytopenia caused by antiviral therapy

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 4245-4248

  Kato, Hiroyuki ^a   Usui, Masanobu ^a   Azumi, Yoshinori ^a   Ohsawa, Ichiro ^a   Kishiwada, Masashi ^a   Sakurai, Hiroyuki ^a   Tabata, Masami ^a   Isaji, Shuji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concomitant splenectomy; Portal vein thrombosis; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MONOTHERAPY; RECURRENT INFECTION; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 54049138508     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.14.4245     Document Type: Article

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