Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory hypoxemia after liver transplantation in severe hepatopulmonary syndrome: A solution with pitfalls

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1141-1144

  Auzinger, Georg ^a   Willars, Christopher ^a   Loveridge, Robert ^a   Best, Thomas ^a   Vercueil, Andre ^a   Prachalias, Andreas ^a   Heneghan, Michael A ^a   Wendon, Julia ^a  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPARIN; METHYLENE BLUE; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ATELECTASIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BODY POSTURE; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FATTY ACID DESATURATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART OUTPUT; HEMATOMA; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG INJURY; MALE; OSCILLATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY SHUNT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SECONDARY INFECTION; SEDATION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION; WEANING; ANOXIA; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY;

ANOXIA; FEMALE; HEPATOPULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE;

EID: 84906937633     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.23926     Document Type: Review

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