A rapid and reliable means of assessing hepatic steatosis in vivo via electrical bioimpedance

Transplantation

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 716-722

  Hessheimer, Amelia J ^a,c   Parramón, Damià ^b   Guimerà, Anton ^b   Erill, Ivan ^b   Rimola, Antoni ^a   García Valdecasas, Juan C ^a   Villa, Rosa ^b   Fondevila, Constantino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioimpedance; Donor selection; Hepatic steatosis; Marginal donor

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATTY LIVER; IMPEDANCE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER RESECTION; LOW FREQUENCY BIOELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ZUCKER RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FATTY LIVER; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATOCYTES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, ZUCKER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70349568499     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3181b391c0     Document Type: Article

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