Hypersplenism after living donor liver transplantation

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 56, Issue 91-92, 2009, Pages 778-782

  Ikegami, Toru ^a,b   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Shimada, Mitsuo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypersplenism; Leukocytopenia; Liver transplantation; Living donor; Portal hypertension; Small for size; Splenectomy; Thrombocytopenia

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PEGINTERFERON ALPHA2B; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651208176     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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