Transesophageal echocardiography during orthotopic liver transplantation in patients with esophagoastric varices

Transplantation

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 192-196

  Burger Klepp, Ursula ^a   Karatosic, Rastko ^a   Thum, Maximillian ^a   Schwarzer, Remy ^a   Fuhrmann, Valentin ^a   Hetz, Hubert ^a   Bacher, Andreas ^a   Berlakovich, Gabriela ^a   Krenn, Claus G ^a   Faybik, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Esophagogastric varices; Esophagus perforation; Portal hypertension; Variceal bleeding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH VARICES; STOMACH VARICES BLEEDING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84864285937     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31825475c2     Document Type: Article

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