Use of abdominal wall allotransplantation as an alternative for the management of end stage abdominal wall failure in a porcine model

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 314-320

  Jin, Judy ^a   Williams, Christina P ^a   Soltanian, Hooman ^a   Smith, Molly K ^a   Pearl, Jonathan ^a   Sanabria, Juan ^a   Rosen, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall transplantation; Complicated abdominal wall hernia; Hernia repair; Immunosuppression; Loss of abdominal domain

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL WALL ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; END STAGE ABDOMINAL WALL FAILURE; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HERNIA INCARCERATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INGUINAL HERNIA; MUSCLE FLAP; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN BIOPSY; TENSILE STRENGTH; THICKNESS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77955980935     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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