Patent foramen ovale does not have a negative impact on early outcomes in patients undergoing liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 151-155

  Alba, Ana Carolina ^a   Verocai Flaman, F ^a   Granton, J ^b   Delgado, D H ^a  

^a Cardiology and Heart Transplant   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Liver transplantation; Outcomes; Patent foramen ovale; Peri operative mortality

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; GENDER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79551690961     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2010.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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