Liver transplantation from a non-heart-beating donor after pulmonary failure: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 913-915

  Faraj, Walid ^a   Marangoni, Gabriele ^a   Dar, Faisal ^a   Mukherji, Deborah ^a   Heaton, Nigel ^a   Muiesan, Paolo ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Donation after cardiac death; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Liver transplantation; Negative pressure ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BICARBONATE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; DOBUTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; SODIUM; TACROLIMUS; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CADAVER DONOR; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLD ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEADACHE; HEART ARREST; HEART DEATH; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LONG TERM CARE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NAUSEA; NECK MUSCLE; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; ORGAN PERFUSION; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VOMITING;

ADULT; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TISSUE DONORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 70349554451     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3950-0     Document Type: Article

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