The beneficial impact of temporary porto-caval shunt in orthotopic liver transplantation: a single center analysis.

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Published in Transpl Int on September 28, 2010

Authors

Davide Ghinolfi1, Josep Martí, Gonzalo Rodríguez-Laiz, Mark Sturdevant, Kishore Iyer, Domenico Bassi, Corey Scher, Myron Schwartz, Thomas Schiano, Hiroshi Sogawa, Juan del Rio Martin

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pisa, Cisanello Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

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