A rare case of functional pancreas graft with newly developed collateral venous drainage after complete portal thrombosis: LETTER to the EDITOR

Transplant International

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 763-765

  Okamoto, Masahiko ^a   Suzuki, Tomoyuki ^a   Fujiki, Masato ^a   Nobori, Shuji ^a   Ushigome, Hidetaka ^a   Sakamoto, Seisuke ^a   Yoshimatsu, Rika ^b   Yamagami, Takuji ^b   Yoshimura, Norio ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANASTOMOSIS; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; PANCREAS FUNCTION; PANCREAS RESECTION; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL SYSTEM; PORTAL VEIN; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66949167393     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00854.x     Document Type: Letter

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