title: [Surgical technique for hepatic venous reconstruction in liver transplantation].
abstract: In living-donor liver transplantation, one of the tactics of hepatic vein reconstruction is to obtain a long and wide venous orifice. The short hepatic vein should be reconstructed in the left liver graft with a caudate lobe. In the modified right liver graft, the tributaries of the middle hepatic veins should be reconstructed if there are no communicating veins between the middle and right hepatic veins.
authors.affiliation: Artificial Organ and Transplantation Division, Department of Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makuuchi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods