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Porcine Liver Transplantation Without Veno-Venous Bypass As an Extended Criteria Donor Model
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Successful liver transplantation after 21 days of hepatic coma
Maarja Hallik1, Kadri Tamme, Toomas Väli
1Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Tartu, Tartu University Hospital, Estonia.
ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992)
|September 28, 2011
Abstract:
A 52-year-old women was treated after ingestion of different wild mushrooms. The case demonstrates that successful liver transplantation with full recovery of brain functions is possible even after 3 weeks of persisting severe hepatic encephalopathy.
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