Evolving experience with prevention and treatment of splenic artery syndrome after orthotopic liver transplantation

Transplant International

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 831-841

  Mogl, Martina T ^a   Nüssler, Natascha C ^b   Presser, Sabine J ^a   Podrabsky, Petr ^a   Denecke, Timm ^a   Grieser, Christian ^a   Neuhaus, Peter ^a   Guckelberger, Olaf ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Neuperlach   (Germany)

Author keywords

liver graft dysfunction; liver transplantation; splenic artery syndrome; vascular complication

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BILE LEAKAGE; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; ENDOSCOPIC PAPILLOTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; FEMALE; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; LIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; LIGATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY; SYNDROME;

EID: 77954486532     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2010.01062.x     Document Type: Article

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