Temporary portocaval shunt in orthotopic liver transplantation: Need for a standardized approach?

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1414-1419

  Davila, Diego ^a   Bartliett, Adam ^a   Heaton, Nigel ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIP; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SAFETY; PIGGYBANK TECHNIQUE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN CLAMPING; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPORARY PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 57849148591     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21603     Document Type: Review

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