Splenic artery syndrome after orthotopic liver transplantation: Treatment with the amplatzer vascular plug

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1208-1213

  Maurer, M H ^a   Mogl, M T ^a   Podrabsky, P ^a   Denecke, T ^a   Grieser, C ^a   Froling V ^a   Scheurig Munkler C ^a   Guckelberger, O ^a   Kroencke, T J ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arterial intervention; Embolization; Portal vein; Splenic artery

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HUMAN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTAL OCCLUDER; SPLEEN INFARCTION; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY SYNDROME; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; SPLENIC ARTERY; SPLENIC DISEASES; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856693956     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-010-0083-9     Document Type: Article

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