Two-staged living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 57, Issue 97, 2010, Pages 146-148

  Yanaga, Katsuhiko ^a,b   Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Takatsuki, Mitsuhisa ^a   Okudaira, Sadayuki ^a   Tajima, Yoshitsugu ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatectomy; Liver transplantation; Living related; Two staged

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; BRAIN DEATH; CASE REPORT; COMA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FULMINANT LIVER FAILURE; HEMODIAFILTRATION; HUMAN; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951995572     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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