Vascular complications in pediatric liver transplantation; single-center experience from Singapore

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1373-1378

  Mali, V P ^a   Aw, M ^a   Quak, S H ^a   Loh, D L ^a   Prabhakaran, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN; PREDNISOLONE; TACROLIMUS;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY STENOSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEARNING CURVE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; SINGAPORE; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84861839555     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: 18732623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2012.01.129     Document Type: Article

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