Strategies for successful left-lobe living donor liver transplantation in 250 consecutive adult cases in a single center

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 353-362

  Ikegami, Toru ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Harimoto, Norifumi ^a   Toshima, Takeo ^a   Yoshiya, Shohei ^a   Ikeda, Tetsuo ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

graft volume; graft weight; graft to recipient weight ratio; GRWR; GV; GW; HA; hepatic artery; LDLT; living donor liver transplantation; MELD; Model for End Stage Liver Disease; portal vein; PV; SLV; standard liver volume

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CYCLOSPORIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; SULTAMICILLIN; SURGICAL GLUE; TACROLIMUS;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORTAL VEIN; PRIMARY GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 84874001031     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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