Bloodless Splenectomy During Liver Transplantation for Terminal Liver Diseases with Portal Hypertension

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Ikegami, Toru ^a   Toshima, Takeo ^a   Takeishi, Kazuki ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERMINAL DISEASE;

BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL STAPLERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58249100338     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.10.034     Document Type: Article

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