Side-to-side cavocavostomy with an endovascular stapler: Rescue technique for severe hepatic vein and/or inferior vena cava outflow obstruction after liver transplantation using the piggyback technique

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-53

  Quintini, Cristiano ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a   Hashimoto, Koji ^a   Philip, Ding ^a   Uso, Teresa Diago ^a   Aucejo, Federico ^a   Kelly, Dympna ^a   Winans, Charles ^a   Eghtesad, Bijan ^a   Vogt, David ^a   Fung, John ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT PERFUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; INJURY SEVERITY; ISCHEMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SIDE TO SIDE CAVOCAVOSTOMY; STAPLER; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 64049118517     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21667     Document Type: Article

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