Splenic artery embolization for the treatment of refractory ascites after liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 668-673

  Quintini, Cristiano ^a   D'Amico, Giuseppe ^a   Brown, Chase ^a   Aucejo, Federico ^a   Hashimoto, Koji ^a   Kelly, Dympna M ^a   Eghtesad, Bijan ^a   Sands, Mark ^a   Fung, John J ^a   Miller, Charles M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PERITONEUM VEIN SHUNT; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY ASCITES; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN WEIGHT; VEIN EMBOLISM; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ASCITES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FATTY LIVER; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLENIC ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957728287     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22280     Document Type: Article

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