Review of the surgical approach to prevent small-for-size syndrome in recipients after left lobe adult LDLT

Surgery Today

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1189-1196

  Raut, Vikram ^a,b   Alikhanov, Ruslan ^b   Belghiti, Jacques ^b   Uemoto, Shinji ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Caudate lobe; Hemiportocaval shunt; Outflow reconstruction; Portal flow modulation

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ADULT TO ADULT LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CHOLESTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMIPORTOCAVAL SHUNT; HUMAN; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER VEIN; LIVER VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MESENTERIC VEIN; MESORENAL SHUNT; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SAFETY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SMALL FOR SIZE SYNDROME; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLEEN ARTERY LIGATION; SPLEEN BLOOD FLOW; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; SPONTANEOUS PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVAL RATE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; SURGERY; SYNDROME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

BUDD-CHIARI SYNDROME; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; ORGAN SIZE; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SAFETY; SPLENECTOMY; SYNDROME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84903270746     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-013-0658-6     Document Type: Review

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