Takeo Toshima, Shinji Itoh, Kazutoyo Morita, Yoshihiro Nagao, Takeshi Kurihara, Takahiro Tomino, Yukiko Kosai-Fujimoto, Takahiro Tomiyama, Katsuya Toshida, Noboru Harada, Tomoharu Yoshizumi
Living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is an established treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease or acute liver failure, and outflow reconstruction is considered one of the most vital techniques in LDLT. To date, many strategies have been reported to prevent outflow obstruction, which can be refractory to liver dysfunction and can cause life-threatening graft loss or mortality. In addition, in this era of laparoscopic hepatectomy in donor surgery, especially LDLT using a left liver graft, it has been predicted that cutting the hepatic vein with automatic linear staplers will lead to more outflow-related problems than with conventional open hepatectomy because of the short neck of the anastomosis orifice...
January 3, 2024: Surgery Today