Endovascular treatment of supra-celiac aortic pseudoaneurysms following liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-191

  Heidenhain, Christoph ^a   Werk, Michael ^b   Gebauer, Bernhard ^b   Gerlach, Undine ^a   Puhl, Gero ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a   Heise, Michael ^a  

^a Department of General Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endovascular repair; Liver transplantation; Pseudoaneurysm; Stent graft

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOLEAK; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY LIGATION; HEPATITIS C; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; STENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CELIAC ARTERY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77952937097     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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