Diagnosis and treatment of pediatric patients with late-onset portal vein stenosis after living donor liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1151-1158

  Kawano, Youichi ^a   Mizuta, Koichi ^a   Sugawara, Yasuhiko ^b   Egami, Satoshi ^a   Hisikawa, Shuji ^a   Sanada, Yukihiro ^a   Fujiwara, Takehito ^a   Sakuma, Yasunaru ^a   Hyodo, Masanobu ^a   Yoshida, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yasuda, Yoshikazu ^a   Sugimoto, Eiji ^a   Kawarasaki, Hideo ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Interventional radiology; Living donor liver transplantation; Pediatric; Portal vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 70449126793     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2009.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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