Hepato-venous reconstruction in orthotopic liver transplantation with preservation of the recipients' inferior vena cava and veno-venous bypass (original) (raw)
2000, Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
Background and aims: The potential advantages of vena cavapreserving recipient hepatectomy in orthotopic liver transplantation are reduced hemorrhage, improved cardiovascular stability and preserved renal perfusion without the requirement of veno-venous bypass as compared with recipient hepatectomy including the vena cava. No detailed information is available on the use of veno-venous bypass during complicated vena cava preserving recipient hepatectomy and liver transplantation. In the present study, the periand postoperative courses of adult liver transplant recipients in whom
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