Successful living donor liver transplantation in portomesenteric thrombosis

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1483-1485

  Iyer, S G ^a   Lau, C L C ^a   Chang, K Y S ^a   Mak, S W K ^a   Madhavan, K K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Liver; Living donor transplantation; Portal vein thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VEIN BYPASS; DONOR; FOLLOW UP; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; MESENTERIC VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENIC VEIN; THROMBOSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENIC VEIN; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77952920905     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03124.x     Document Type: Article

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