Small-for-size syndrome after living donor liver transplantation: Successful treatment with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1118-1120

  Xiao, Li ^a   Li, Fuqiang ^b   Wei, Bo ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Tang, Cheng Wei ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BALLOON; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; HEPATIC VEIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFLUENZA; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; STENT; SYNDROME; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ASCITES; BIOPSY; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PORTOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865612645     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23457     Document Type: Article

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