Neurologic complications in adult living donor liver transplant patients: An underestimated factor?

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Saner, Fuat Hakan ^a   Gensicke, Julia ^a   Damink, Steven W M Olde ^b,c   Pavlaković, Goran ^d   Treckmann, Juergen ^a   Dammann, Marc ^a   Kaiser, Gernot M ^a   Sotiropoulos, Georgios C ^a   Radtke, Arnold ^a   Koeppen, Susanne ^e   Beckebaum, Susanne ^a   Cicinnati, Vito ^f   Nadalin, Silvio ^a   Malagó, Massimo ^a,c   Paul, Andreas ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^f Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Immunosuppression; Liver transplantation; Living donor; Neurological complication

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFABULATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SOMNOLENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

BRAIN DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TACROLIMUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77949273369     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-009-5303-3     Document Type: Article

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