Improvements in hepatic parenchymal transection for living related liver donor

Autor: F. Vasta, Davide Cintorino, W. Marsh, Bruno Gridelli, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Alfredo Musumeci, Amadeo Marcos, Lucio Mandala
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
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Popis: Introduction. To eliminate mortality and morbidity risk in living related liver donors, we developed a new surgical technique to resect hepatic parenchyma using an ultrasonic surgical aspirator in association with a monopolar floating ball cautery. Methods. We performed 17 right hepatectomies and 2 left hepatectomies using this technique. We performed a retrospective analysis of perioperative mortality, length of hospitalization (LOS), blood transfused during surgery (IBT), intraoperative blood lost (IBL), biliary complications (BC), and aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) peak in the first postoperative week. This group of patients (Group A) was compared, using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test (P
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