How we treat sickle hepatopathy and liver transplantation in adults

Blood

Volumn 123, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2302-2307

  Gardner, Kate ^a,b   Suddle, Abid ^b   Kane, Pauline ^b   O'Grady, John ^b   Heaton, Nigel ^b   Bomford, Adrian ^b   Thein, Swee Lay ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN; CANDESARTAN; ETILEFRINE; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN S; HYDROXYUREA; LIVER ENZYME; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE CLEARANCE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEVER; GALLSTONE; HEMOFILTRATION; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; IRON OVERLOAD; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PARALYTIC ILEUS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIAPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; SEPSIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SICKLE CELL INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899075176     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-12-542076     Document Type: Article

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