Biliary complications after orthotopic liver transplantation

Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 209-216

  Karimian, Negin ^a   Westerkamp, Andrie C ^a   Porte, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

biliary complications; donation after brain death; liver transplantation; machine perfusion; nonanastomotic biliary strictures

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILE SALT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL CHOLANGITIS; BILE DUCT INJURY; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY STENT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT FILLING DEFECT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYSTIC DUCT MUCOCELE; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNE MEDIATED INJURY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONANASTOMOTIC BILIARY STRICTURE; PATHOGENESIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERIDUCTAL LYMPHOMA; PERIDUCTAL NEUROMA; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; VATER PAPILLA STENOSIS;

BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; BRAIN DEATH; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PERFUSION; RISK FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84900839893     PISSN: 10872418     EISSN: 15317013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000082     Document Type: Review

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