Hemodynamic failure as an indication to urgent liver transplantation in infants with giant hepatic hemangiomas or vascular malformations - Report of four cases

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 906-912

  Markiewicz Kijewska, Malgorzata ^a   Kasprzyk, Weronika ^a   Broniszczak, Dorota ^a   Bacewicz, Ludmila ^a   Ostoja Chyzynska, Anna ^a   Ismail, Hor ^a   Kosciesza, Andrzej ^a   Dembowska Baginska, Bozenna ^a   Teisseyre, Joanna ^a   Kluge, Przemyslaw ^a   Brzezinska Rajszys, Grazyna ^a   Jankowska, Irena ^a   Kalicinski, Piotr ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Giant liver hemangioma; Infants; Liver transplantation; Vascular malformations of the liver

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DIURETIC AGENT;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ARTERY LIGATION; HUMAN; INFANT; ISCHEMIA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMANGIOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 70349938012     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.01050.x     Document Type: Article

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