Four hundred and twenty-three consecutive adults piggy-back liver transplantations with the three suprahepatic veins: Was the portal systemic shunt required?

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 591-596

  Audet, Maxime ^a   Piardi, Tullio ^a   Panaro, Fabrizio ^a   Cag, Murat ^a   Habibeh, Hussein ^a   Gheza, Federico ^a   Portolani, Nazario ^b   Cinqualbre, Jacques ^a   Jaeck, Daniel ^a   Wolf, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver; Piggy back; Portal systemic shunt; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; COLD ISCHEMIA; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; ASCITES; CAVA VEIN; CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; CLAMP; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER VEIN; POLYPROPYLENE SUTURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77649224889     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2009.06084.x     Document Type: Article

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