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Heterotopic Auxiliary Rat Liver Transplantation With Flow-regulated Portal Vein Arterialization in Acute Hepatic Failure
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Hepatic vein flow index during orthotopic liver transplantation as predictive factor for postoperative early
Yoshihisa Morita1, Jose R Navas-Blanco2, Michael Isley1
1Department of Anesthesiology, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|December 2, 2019
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