Contrast-enhanced ultrasound in liver transplant: First results and potential for complications in the postoperative period

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 83-94

  Clevert, D A ^a   Stickel, M ^a   Minaifar, N ^a   Lohe F ^a   Graeb, C ^a   Jauch, K W ^a   Reiser, M ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced ultrasound; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBENIC ACID; IOPAMIDOL; SONOVUE;

ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

BILIARY TRACT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69449092348     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2009-1223     Document Type: Article

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