Hemodynamics-compliant reconstruction of the right hepatic vein for adult living donor liver transplantation with a right liver graft

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 858-866

  Hwang, Shin ^a   Ha, Tae Yong ^a   Ahn, Chul Soo ^a   Moon, Deok Bog ^a   Song, Gi Won ^a   Kim, Ki Hun ^a   Jung, Dong Hwan ^a   Park, Gil Chun ^a   Sung, Kyu Bo ^a   Ko, Gi Young ^a   Kim, Kyoung Won ^a   Cho, Byungchul ^a   Namgoong, Jung Man ^a   Jung, Sung Won ^a   Yoon, Sam Youl ^a   Park, Chun Soo ^a   Park, Yo Han ^a   Park, Hyeong Woo ^a   Lee, Hyo Jun ^a   Lee, Sung Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC VEIN; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEPATIC VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; RIGHT HEPATIC VEIN STENOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN OCCLUSION; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 84863969304     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23430     Document Type: Article

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