Surgical management of portal hypertension in children

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 219-232

  de Ville de Goyet, Jean ^a   D'Ambrosio, Giuseppe ^a   Grimaldi, Chiara ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liver transplantation; Meso Rex bypass; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic shunts

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; DIPYRIDAMOLE; HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN DISEASE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHYLOUS ASCITES; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NECK; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIOLOGY; SHUNT THROMBOSIS; SHUNTING; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGERY; VEIN OCCLUSION;

CHILD; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SPLENECTOMY; STENTS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84863821279     PISSN: 10558586     EISSN: 15329453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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