Perioperative Management of Spontaneous Splenorenal Shunts in Orthotopic Liver Transplant Patients

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 475-481

  Awad, Nadia ^a   Horrow, Mindy M ^a   Parsikia, Afshin ^a   Brady, Paul ^a   Zaki, Radi ^a   Fishman, Michael D C ^a   Ortiz, Jorge ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver; Splenorenal shunt; Transplant

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY STEAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT SAFETY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTORENAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS SPLENORENAL SHUNT; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VEIN LIGATION;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 84867242417     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6002/ect.2011.0201     Document Type: Article

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