1. Living-Donor Liver Transplantation for Budd-Chiari Syndrome: Case Series.
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Karaca C, Yilmaz C, Ferecov R, Iakobadze Z, Kilic K, Caglayan L, Aydogdu S, and Kilic M
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- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Constriction, Pathologic surgery, Female, Hepatic Veins surgery, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Plastic Surgery Procedures methods, Retrospective Studies, Vascular Surgical Procedures methods, Vena Cava, Inferior surgery, Young Adult, Budd-Chiari Syndrome surgery, Liver Transplantation methods, Living Donors
- Abstract
Background: Venous reconstruction in living-donor liver transplantation for Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) has challenges because the grafts from living donors lack vena cava, and hepatic venous anastomosis must be performed on an already-thrombosed and/or stenosed inferior vena cava. Several techniques are described to overcome this problem, and we represent our experience with 22 patients., Methods: Medical recordings of 22 patients were retrospectively collected, and disease-specific data as well as recordings about surgical technique were analyzed., Results: Creation of a wide, triangular de novo orifice was the main method used for venous drainage, which was used in 19 patients. The remaining 3 patients had totally thrombosed vena cava; thus, direct anastomosis to the supra-hepatic portion of the vena cava was used in 2 patients and an anastomosis to the right atrium was used in 1 patient., Conclusions: Venous reconstruction in BCS can be achieved without the use of patch-plasty, and the inferior vena cava can be safely resected in selected patients. Living-donor liver transplantation is a feasible option for the treatment of BCS, considering the scarcity of cavaderic donors., (Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2017
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