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Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Rats
Published on: July 1, 2012
Early experience in the Queensland Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Programme
B J Burrow1, A J Board, J E Taske
1Department of Anaesthesia, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
|August 1, 1987
Abstract:
The cases of the first nine patients to receive orthotopic liver transplants in the Queensland Liver Transplant Programme are reported. Problems peculiar to this type of operation are discussed generally and in the light of this experience. The anaesthetic technique employed is described. There were no deaths attributable to anaesthesia.
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