Current split liver (SL) techniques allow to face all the demand for paediatric liver transplantation in small children. However, the left grafts obtained with such techniques are in the majority of cases too small to be safely transplanted into large children or adults. We have developed an alternative SL technique, by which the liver is more equally divided along its main fissure, thus generating two grafts both suitable to be transplanted into adults or large children.We present here the results obtained in the first cases in which the technique was employed.
Alternative split liver technique: the equal size split.
VALENTE, UMBERTO;
2001-01-01
Abstract
Current split liver (SL) techniques allow to face all the demand for paediatric liver transplantation in small children. However, the left grafts obtained with such techniques are in the majority of cases too small to be safely transplanted into large children or adults. We have developed an alternative SL technique, by which the liver is more equally divided along its main fissure, thus generating two grafts both suitable to be transplanted into adults or large children.We present here the results obtained in the first cases in which the technique was employed.
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