Percutaneous transfemoral embolization of a spontaneous splenorenal shunt presenting with ischemic graft dysfunction 18 months post-transplant

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 816-819

  Hajjaj, Ali Al ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^b   Krishna, Murli ^c   Dickson, Rolland ^a   Mark, McKinney J ^c   Nguyen, Justin ^c   Steers, Jeffery ^d   Aranda Michel, Jaime ^a  

^a St Luke's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c St' Luke's Hospital   (United States)

^d AURORA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIVER ENZYME; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; LIVER ANGIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VEIN BYPASS; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; SPLEEN; VASCULARIZATION;

EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RENAL VEINS; SPLEEN;

EID: 58149183958     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00691.x     Document Type: Letter

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