Portal flow steal after liver transplantation

Bohyun Kim; Kyoung Won Kim; Gi-Won Song; Sung-Gyu Lee

doi:10.3350/cmh.2015.21.3.314

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology (Sep 2015)

Portal flow steal after liver transplantation

Bohyun Kim,
Kyoung Won Kim,
Gi-Won Song,
Sung-Gyu Lee

Affiliations

Bohyun Kim: Department of Radiology, Ajou University Medical Center, Suwon, Korea.
Kyoung Won Kim: Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Gi-Won Song: Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Sung-Gyu Lee: Division of Liver Transplantation and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2015.21.3.314
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 21, no. 3
pp. 314 – 317

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Portal flow steal occasionally persists even after the liver transplantation, which may reduce the portal flow and thus threaten the patients' outcome. Therefore, pre- and peri-operative detection of portal steal phenomenon requiring radiological or surgical interruption is essential for the liver transplantation candidates as well as for the recipients.

Published in Clinical and Molecular Hepatology

ISSN: 2287-2728 (Print); 2287-285X (Online)
Publisher: Korean Association for the Study of the Liver
Country of publisher: Korea, Republic of
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: http://www.e-cmh.org

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