Spleen stiffness measurements by acoustic radiation force impulse imaging after living donor liver transplantation in children: a potential quantitative index for venous complications

Background Living donor liver transplantation in children often results in venous complications, leading to portal hypertension. Spleen stiffness measurements have been recently proposed as a new, noninvasive parameter for portal hypertension in cirrhotic patients. Objective To evaluate the diagnost...

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Veröffentlicht in:Pediatric radiology 2015-04, Vol.45 (5), p.658-666
Hauptverfasser: Tomita, Hirofumi, Fuchimoto, Yasushi, Ohkuma, Kiyoshi, Hoshino, Ken, Fujino, Akihiro, Kato, Mototoshi, Fujimura, Takumi, Ishihama, Hideo, Takahashi, Nobuhiro, Tanami, Yutaka, Nakatsuka, Seishi, Ebinuma, Hirotoshi, Saito, Hidetsugu, Shinoda, Masahiro, Kitagawa, Yuko, Kuroda, Tatsuo
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