Auxiliary partial orthotopic living donor liver transplantation with a small-for-size graft for congenital absence of the portal vein

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1437-1439

  Matsuura, Toshiharu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Taguchi, Tomoaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILE ACID; BILIRUBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPLENIA; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GALACTOSEMIA; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; JAPANESE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SUTURING METHOD;

ADOLESCENT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PORTAL VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649821160     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22179     Document Type: Article

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