Strategies to optimize donor safety with smaller grafts for adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 230-234

  Campos, B Daniel ^b   Botha, Jean F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

graft weight to recipient weight ratio; left lobe liver transplantation; living donor liver transplantation; portal vein pressure modulation; small for size syndrome; small graft liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT TO ADULT LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN DONOR; PATIENT SAFETY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; REPERFUSION; REVIEW; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 84861167925     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0b013e32835365b2     Document Type: Review

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