Appropriate donor size for porcine liver xenotransplant

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-153

  Soleimani, Mehrdad ^a   Fonouni, Hamidreza ^a   Esmaeilzadeh, Majid ^a   Kashfi, Arash ^a   Yazdi, Seyed Hashem Fani ^a   Golriz, Mohammad ^a   Hafezi, Mohammadreza ^a   Rahbari, Nuh N ^a   Schmidt, Jan ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimental surgery; Liver transplant; Liver weight; Organ compatibility; Xenotransplant

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATIC ARTERY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LANDRACE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER HILUS; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PORTAL VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SWINE; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COMMON BILE DUCT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL VEIN; SUS SCROFA; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84859319354     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2011.0102     Document Type: Article

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