Small bowel transplantation: Technical advances/updates

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-266

  Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intestinal transplantation; Multivisceral transplantation; Rejection; Surgical techniques

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; INTESTINE GRAFT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; LARGE INTESTINE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVING DONOR; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; SPLEEN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ENTEROPATHY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORTALITY; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; REOPERATION; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT SELECTION; REOPERATION; SPLEEN; STOMACH; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651031513     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e328329cdc5     Document Type: Review

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