Posterior cavoplasty: A new approach to avoid venous outflow obstruction and symptoms for small-for-size syndrome in right lobe living donor liver transplantation

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 396, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 389-395

  Goralczyk, Armin D ^a   Obed, Aiman ^a   Beham, Alexander ^a   Tsui, Tung Yu ^b   Lorf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Complication; Liver transplantation; Living donor liver transplantation; Portal hypertension; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT NECROSIS; HUMAN; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INCISION; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CANCER; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; POSTERIOR CAVOPLASTY; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; VEIN SURGERY;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 79955942712     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-010-0736-9     Document Type: Article

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