Left lobe living related liver transplantation in the absence of an extrahepatic left portal vein.
Absence of a normal left extrahepatic portal vein is considered to be a contraindication to left lobe living-related liver transplantation. This report is of a successful case of living- related liver transplantation using a left lobe procured in a patient presenting with an absent horizontal segment of the left extrahepatic vein.
Lerut
Jan
J
Liver Transplant Program, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain-Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Ciccarelli
Olga
O
Danse
Etienne
E
Goffette
Pierre
P
Van Beers
Bernard
B
Reding
Raymond
R
Otte
Jean-Bernard
JB
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000002:abnormalities*