A single-center experience of 500 liver transplants using the modified piggyback technique by Belghiti

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 466-474

  Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Mood, Zhoobin A ^a   Fonouni, Hamidreza ^a   Kashfi, Arash ^a   Hillebrand, Norbert ^a   Müller, Sascha A ^a   Encke, Jens ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CAVOCAVOSTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HERNIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED PIGGYBACK TECHNIQUE BY BELGHITI; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VEIN SURGERY; VIRUS HEPATITIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER RESECTION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649922937     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21705     Document Type: Article

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