Portal pressure <15mm Hg is a key for successful adult living donor liver transplantation utilizing smaller grafts than before

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 718-728

  Ogura, Yasuhiro ^a   Hori, Tomohide ^a   El Moghazy, Walid M ^a   Yoshizawa, Atsushi ^a   Oike, Fumitaka ^a   Mori, Akira ^a   Kaido, Toshimi ^a   Takada, Yasutsugu ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYNDROME; HISTOLOGY; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAPAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPLENECTOMY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ASCITES; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; JAPAN; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953643288     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22059     Document Type: Article

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