Early postoperative complications following liver transplantation

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 881-900

  Mueller, Andrea R ^a   Platz, Klaus Peter ^a   Kremer, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biliary tract complications; Hepatic artery thrombosis; Infectious complications; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; ARGININE; BASILIXIMAB; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CATECHOLAMINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DACLIZUMAB; GLUTAMINE; HEPARIN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTERIC FEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LACTOBACILLUS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 5744232402     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6918(04)00109-X     Document Type: Review

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