Emergency Liver Transplantation After Umbilical Hernia Repair: A Case Report

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4428-4430

  Reissfelder, C ^a   Radeleff, B ^a   Mehrabi, A ^a   Rahbari, N N ^a   Weitz, J ^a   Buchler M W ^a   Schmidt, J ^a   Schemmer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; THROMBOSIS; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UMBILICAL HERNIA; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; EMERGENCIES; HERNIA, UMBILICAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 71249145360     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.08.068     Document Type: Article

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