Post-transplant biliary complications: An analysis from a predominantly living donor liver transplant center

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1056-1060

  Wadhawan, Manav ^a   Kumar, Ajay ^a   Gupta, Subash ^a   Goyal, Neerav ^a   Shandil, Rajeev ^a   Taneja, Sunil ^a   Sibal, Anupam ^a  

^a INDRAPRASTHA APOLLO HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Biliary complications; Liver transplant; Living related; Survival

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY STENT; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT SURGERY; BLEEDING; CHILD; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL FOR END STAGE LIVER DISEASE SCORE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCREATITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROTHERAPY; SEPSIS; STENT; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOTIC LEAK; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878202517     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgh.12169     Document Type: Article

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