Left lobe adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation: Small grafts and hemiportocaval shunts in the prevention of small-for-size syndrome

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 649-657

  Botha, Jean F ^a   Langnas, Alan N ^a   Daniel Campos, B ^a   Grant, Wendy J ^a   Freise, Christopher E ^b   Ascher, Nancy L ^b   Mercer, David F ^a   Roberts, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ADULT TO ADULT LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMIPORTOCAVAL SHUNT; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951709724     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22043     Document Type: Article

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