title: Side-to-side cavo-cavostomy: a useful aid in "complicated" piggy-back liver transplantation.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lerut
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gertsch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000601:surgery; D014684:Venae Cavae / Q000601:surgery*