Out-of-reach obscure bleeding: Single-balloon enteroscopy to diagnose and treat varices in hepaticojejunostomy after pediatric liver transplant

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Curcio, Gabriele ^a   Sciveres, Marco ^a   Mocciaro, Filippo ^a   Riva, Silvia ^a   Spada, Marco ^a   Tarantino, Ilaria ^a   Barresi, Luca ^a   Traina, Mario ^a  

^a MEDITERRANEAN INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPLANTATION AND ADVANCED SPECIALIZED THERAPIES ISMETT   (Italy)

Author keywords

enteroscopy; hepaticojejunostomy; obscure bleeding; varices

Indexed keywords

CYANOACRYLATE; ENEMA;

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS DEHISCENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CHOLEDOCHOJEJUNOSTOMY; COLONOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MELENA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCLEROTHERAPY; SINGLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; STOMACH VARICES; TRANSFUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; JEJUNOSTOMY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 84859727404     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2010.01425.x     Document Type: Article

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