Fulminant and fatal gas gangrene of the stomach in a healthy live liver donor

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1315-1319

  Miller, Charles M ^a,b   Florman, Sander ^a   Kim Schluger, Leona ^a   Lento, Patrick ^a   De La Garza, Julia ^a   Wu, Josephine ^a   Xie, Boxun ^a   Zhang, Wandi ^a   Bottone, Edward ^a   Zhang, David ^a   Schwartz, Myron ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CHLORPROMAZINE; CLONAZEPAM; METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM COLONY; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; DEATH; FATALITY; GAS GANGRENE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; NAUSEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTIC SHOCK; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; TACHYCARDIA; VOLUNTEER; VOMITING;

CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FATAL OUTCOME; GAS GANGRENE; GASTRITIS; HEMATEMESIS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STOMACH DISEASES; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 6444239251     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20227     Document Type: Article

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