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Liver transplantation in a patient with sickle cell anemia
J D Kindscher1, J Laurin, R Delcore
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City 66160-7415, USA.
Transplantation
|October 15, 1995
Abstract:
Orthotopic liver transplantation in a patient with sickle cell disease presents many new challenges to the transplant team. We describe the case of a 47-year-old patient with sickle cell disease and hepatitis C virus-induced cirrhosis who required liver transplantation.