Roux-en-Y loop varices in children with portal hypertension after liver transplantation: An unusual cause of "obscure" gastrointestinal bleeding

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chu, Jaime ^a   Kerkar, Nanda ^a   Miloh, Tamir A ^a   Rodriguez Laiz, Gonzalo ^a   Lewis, Blair ^b   Stangl, Anondo ^a   Newton, Kimberly P ^c   Iyer, Kishore ^a   Arnon, Ronen ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Gastroenterology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gastrointestinal bleeding; obscure bleeding; pediatric liver transplant; portal hypertension; Roux en Y varices

Indexed keywords

ESOMEPRAZOLE; MORRHUATE SODIUM; OCTREOTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MELENA; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VARICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC DUCT, COMMON; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; JEJUNUM; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 82155197272     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01351.x     Document Type: Article

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