Left lobe living donor liver transplantation in adults

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1877-1885

  Soejima, Yuji ^a,b   Shirabe, K ^a   Taketomi, A ^a   Yoshizumi, T ^a   Uchiyama, H ^a   Ikegami, T ^a   Ninomiya, M ^a   Harada, N ^a   Ijichi, H ^a   Maehara, Y ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAISEIKAI FUKUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult; Left lobe graft; Living donor transplantation; Long term graft survival; Small for size graft

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COLON CANCER; COLON PERFORATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFARCTION; LEFT LOBE LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER HEMATOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREAS FISTULA; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT LOBE LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; SEPSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; T CELL LEUKEMIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE;

EID: 84863206790     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2012.04022.x     Document Type: Article

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