Caval inflow to the graft for liver transplantation in patients with diffuse portal vein thrombosis: A 12-Year experience

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1008-1016

  Bhangui, Prashant ^a   Lim, Chetana ^a   Salloum, Chady ^a   Andreani, Paola ^a   Sebbagh, Mylene ^a   Hoti, Emir ^a   Ichai, Philippe ^a   Saliba, Faouzi ^a   Adam, Rene ^a,b   Castaing, Denis ^a,b   Azoulay, Daniel ^a,c  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CAVOPORTAL ANASTOMOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MORBIDITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTORENAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY THROMBOSIS; STENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN RUPTURE;

ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; RENAL VEINS; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBECTOMY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 81855212758     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822d7894     Document Type: Article

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