Side-to-side cavo-cavostomy: a useful aid in ?complicated? piggy-back liver transplantation
- 1 September 1993
- journal article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Transplant International
- Vol. 6 (5) , 299-301
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00336033
Abstract
Piggy-back liver transplantation is a useful technical variant of orthotopic liver transplantation. Its success can, however, be compromised by severe stenosis or obstruction of the recipient's inferior vena cava at the level of the anastomosis. A technique is described--side-to-side cavocavostomy--to resolve this difficult intraoperative situation.Keywords
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