Lethal hepatic infarction following plasma exchange in living donor liver transplant patients

Transplant International

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Mizuno, Shugo ^a   Wada, Hideo ^a   Hamada, Takashi ^a   Nobuoka, Yu ^a   Tabata, Masami ^a   Nobori, Tsutomu ^a   Isaji, Shuji ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NAFAMSTAT MESILATE; STEROID; THROMBOMODULIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR CLEAVING PROTEINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LETHAL HEPATIC INFARCTION; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; PLASMAPHERESIS; PNEUMONIA; PORTAL VEIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEPSIS; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA;

ADULT; AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFARCTION; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79959818168     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2011.01244.x     Document Type: Letter

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