Long-term deleterious effects of aortohepatic conduits in primary liver transplantation: Proceed with caution

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 916-925

  Hibi, Taizo ^a,b   Nishida, Seigo ^a,c   Levi, David M ^a   Sugiyama, Daisuke ^d   Fukazawa, Kyota ^b   Tekin, Akin ^a,b   Fan, Ji ^a,b   Selvaggi, Gennaro ^a,b   Ruiz, Phillip ^a,b   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; AORTOHEPATIC CONDUIT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BLEEDING; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CHILD; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD ISCHEMIA; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATIC ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INFANT; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SCHOOL CHILD; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSFUSION;

EID: 84881110382     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23689     Document Type: Article

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