Paediatric liver transplantation: The surgical view

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 948, 2004, Pages 571-576

  Vilca Melendez, H ^a   Heaton, N D ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RAPAMYCIN; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILE LEAKAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GINGIVA HYPERPLASIA; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CHILD; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REOPERATION; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 6344226417     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2003.018598     Document Type: Review

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