Meso-Rex shunt for immediate portal revascularization in pediatric liver transplantation: First report

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Rivera, Jairo ^a,b   Fusaro, Fabio ^a   De Magnée, Catherine ^a   Clapuyt, Philippe ^a   Reding, Raymond ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b FUNDACIÓN CARDIOINFANTIL INSTITUTO DE CARDIOLOGÍA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

intraoperative complications; living donor liver transplantation; portal reconstruction

Indexed keywords

TACROLIMUS;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MESENTERIC VEIN; MESO REX SHUNT; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PHLEBOTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILIARY ATRESIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JUGULAR VEINS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; PORTAL VEIN; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84864614580     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2011.01576.x     Document Type: Article

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