Surgical Perspectives on the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Guideline for Anticoagulation and Implications for Liver Transplantation
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Peter Liou; Thomas M. Fishbein; Tomoaki Kato
- Source
- Liver Transplantation. 27:580-583
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
030230 surgery
Liver transplantation
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Blood Coagulation
Contraindication
Transplantation
Hepatology
business.industry
Liver Diseases
Anticoagulants
End stage liver disease
Guideline
Perioperative
medicine.disease
United States
Liver Transplantation
Surgery
Portal vein thrombosis
surgical procedures, operative
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Transplant surgeon
business
Splanchnic
- Language
- ISSN
- 1527-6473
1527-6465
Thromboses of the hepatic and splanchnic vasculature, as both a cause and manifestation of end stage liver disease, represent some of the most formidable perioperative challenges for the transplant surgeon. Thomas Starzl's encounters with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in the early era of liver transplantation and the resultant intraoperative deaths made PVT an absolute to relative contraindication to transplant for years1 .