How to handle a huge portosystemic shunt in adult living donor liver transplantation with a small-for-size graft: Report of a case
โ Scribed by Yasumasa Shirouzu; Yuki Ohya; Yukika Tsukamoto; Hidekazu Yamamoto; Kwang-Jong Lee; Hideaki Okajima; Katsuhiro Asonuma; Yukihiro Inomata
- Book ID
- 113049137
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1436-2813
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Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (AA-LDLT) is an established treatment option for selected patients with end-stage liver disease. However, its widespread application is limited by the liver volume that can be safely resected from a living donor because a sufficient volume is also re
In general, for a liver transplantation to be successful, the graft size should cover 30%-40% of the expected liver volume or 0.8%-1.0% of the body weight of the recipient. 1,2 However, small-for-size-graft syndrome depends not only on the graft size but also on the recipient's preoperative conditio