Preoperative thromboelastometry as a predictor of transfusion requirements during adult living donor liver transplantation

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 99-108

  Fayed, Nirmeen ^a   Mourad, Wessam ^a   Yassen, Khaled ^a   Görlinger, Klaus ^b,c  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c Lahmeyer International GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult living donor liver transplantation; Allogeneic blood transfusion; Blood coagulation; Point of care testing; Thromboelastometry

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CRYOPRECIPITATE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE THROMBOELASTOMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPH;

EID: 84928485635     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: 16603818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000381733     Document Type: Article

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