"Rex Shunt" for the Treatment of Portal Vein Thrombosis After Pediatric Liver Transplantation: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 955-956

  Gibelli, N E M ^a   Tannuri, U ^a   de Pinho Apezzato, M L ^a   Tannuri, A C A ^a   Maksoud Filho, J G ^a   Velhote, M C P ^a   Santos, M M ^a   Ayoub, A A R ^a   Marques da Silva, M ^a   Andrade, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DIURETIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHYLOUS ASCITES; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MESENTERIC PORTAL SURGICAL SHUNT; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN SURGERY;

CADAVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; JUGULAR VEINS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SPLENOMEGALY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 64649098983     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.01.055     Document Type: Article

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