Graft macrosteatosis and time of T-tube removal as risk factors for biliary strictures after liver transplantation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Lattanzi, Barbara ^a   Lai, Quirino ^a   Guglielmo, Nicola ^a   Giannelli, Valerio ^a   Merli, Manuela ^a   Giusto, Michela ^a   Melandro, Fabio ^a   Ginanni Corradini, Stefano ^a   Mennini, Gianluca ^a   Berloco, Pasquale Bartolomeo ^a   Rossi, Massimo ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biliary strictures; Liver transplantation; Macrovesicular steatosis; T tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLESTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MACROVESICULAR STEATOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STEATOSIS; SURVIVAL; T TUBE; TUBE REMOVAL; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; COMPLICATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATTY LIVER; ITALY; LIVER DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEVICE REMOVAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84878661228     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ctr.12124     Document Type: Article

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