Postoperative neurological complications in 185 patients who underwent two or more orthotopic liver transplantations were reviewed. The most common neurological complications were alteration of mental status (84%), seizures (33%) and focal motor deficits (16%). The frequency of neurological complica
Pseudallescheria boydii infection after liver retransplantation
✍ Scribed by Hugo Bonatti; Hannes Goegele; Dominique Tabarelli; Gilbert Muehlmann; Robert Sawyer; Raimund Margreiter; Walter Mark; Cornelia Lass Flörl
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 54 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1527-6465
- DOI
- 10.1002/lt.21120
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