Can Doppler sonography discern between hemodynamically significant and insignificant portal vein stenosis after adult liver transplantation?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1438-1443

  Mullan, Charles P ^a   Siewert, Bettina ^a   Kane, Robert A ^a   Sheiman, Robert G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Liver transplantation; Peak systolic velocity (PSV); Portal vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; SYSTOLE; VELOCITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 78649726460     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4636     Document Type: Article

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