Back-table reconstruction of the donor replaced right hepatic artery prior to liver transplantation: What is the real impact on arterial complications?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 56, Issue 91-92, 2009, Pages 756-762

  Seket, Belhassen ^a   Abdelaal, Amr ^a   Gelas, Thomas ^a   Pittau, Gabriella ^a   Dumortier, Jérôme ^a   Vanhems, Philippe ^a   Boillot, Olivier ^a  

^a EDOUARD HERRIOT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Arterial complications; Arterial reconstruction; Graft and patient survival; Graft arterial variations; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 67651212313     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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