Changes in the brain during long-term follow-up after liver transplantation

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1332-1337

  Herynek, Vít ^a   Wagnerová, Dita ^a   Hejlová, Irena ^a   Dezortová, Monika ^a   Hájek, Milan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

brain; hepatic cirrhosis; hepatic encephalopathy; liver transplantation; MR relaxometry

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; PARAMAGNETIC ION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXOMETRY; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84862086230     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23599     Document Type: Article

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