Endovascular closure of a hemiportocaval shunt after small-for-size adult-to-adult left lobe living donor liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1671-1675

  Botha, Jean F ^a   Campos, B Daniel ^a   Johanning, Jason ^a   Mercer, David ^a   Grant, Wendy ^a   Langnas, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LETHARGY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 71249120435     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.21944     Document Type: Article

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