Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis

Benign portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a challenging complication of an otherwise successful liver transplantation. PVT is caused by various conditions and results in pathologic hemodynamics of hepatofugal diversion of porto-mesenteric blood flow. Thus, adequate restoration of portal blood flow to t...

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Autor principal: Kim, Bong-Wan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582549/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26421021
http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/kjhbps.2011.15.2.78
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description Benign portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a challenging complication of an otherwise successful liver transplantation. PVT is caused by various conditions and results in pathologic hemodynamics of hepatofugal diversion of porto-mesenteric blood flow. Thus, adequate restoration of portal blood flow to the liver graft is a major concern when trying to achieve successful liver transplantation in patients with PVT. This letter describes the surgical view point of PVT in liver transplantation.
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spelling pubmed-45825492015-09-29 Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis Kim, Bong-Wan Korean J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg Review Article Benign portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a challenging complication of an otherwise successful liver transplantation. PVT is caused by various conditions and results in pathologic hemodynamics of hepatofugal diversion of porto-mesenteric blood flow. Thus, adequate restoration of portal blood flow to the liver graft is a major concern when trying to achieve successful liver transplantation in patients with PVT. This letter describes the surgical view point of PVT in liver transplantation. Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2011-05 2011-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4582549/ /pubmed/26421021 http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/kjhbps.2011.15.2.78 Text en Copyright © 2011 by The Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title_full Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title_fullStr Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title_full_unstemmed Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title_short Liver Transplantation in Liver Cirrhosis Patients Accompanied by Portal Vein Thrombosis
title_sort liver transplantation in liver cirrhosis patients accompanied by portal vein thrombosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4582549/
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