Optimal changes in portal hemodynamics induced by splenectomy during living donor liver transplantation

Surgery Today

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 979-985

  Wang, Huanlin ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Harada, Noboru ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Soejima, Yuji ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Yamashita, Yo Ichi ^a   Itoh, Shinji ^a   Harimoto, Norifumi ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Donor age; Graft dysfunction; Hyperbilirubinemia; Living donor liver transplantation; Small for size

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; VACCINATION; VENOUS PRESSURE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 84937513149     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-014-0999-9     Document Type: Article

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