Liver transplantation with monosegment from a living donor
| Autor: | Elizabeth Balbi, Marcia Halpern, Rosalice Miecznikowski, Lúcio Filgueiras Pacheco-Moreira, Flavia Goncalves Coelho De Souza e Oliveira, Adriana Caroli Bottino, Josther Gracia, Marcelo Enne, Lucio José Auler de Faria, Rodrigo Pereira Diaz André, Giuseppe Santalucia, Grace Kelly Paranhos, José Manoel Martinho, Alexandre Cerqueira, João Luiz Pereira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Transplantation medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Small children Infant Economic shortage Organ Size Liver transplantation Living donor Liver Transplantation Surgery Bile Ducts Intrahepatic Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Living Donors Hepatectomy Humans Medicine Lateral segment business Donor pool |
| Zdroj: | Pediatric Transplantation. 8:189-191 |
| ISSN: | 1399-3046 1397-3142 |
| Popis: | The shortage of organ donors for low-weight liver transplant recipients, especially for small children, has led to the development of new surgical techniques to increase the donor pool. Almost all of these techniques use the left lateral segment (Couinaud's segments II and III), but even this graft could be too large for children under 10 kg. We report here the case of an 8-month-old boy, weighing 6.1 kg, who received a monosegmental graft (segment III) from his grandmother weighing 68 kg. The graft was reduced at the donor surgery, before clamping of the vessels. The donor was discharged on the fourth post-operative day; the recipient had an uneventful post-operative period and was discharged after 22 days. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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