title: Left lobe living related liver transplantation in the absence of an extrahepatic left portal vein.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Liver Transplant Program, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain-Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lerut
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ciccarelli
authors.forename: Etienne
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Danse
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goffette
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Van Beers
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Reding
authors.forename: Jean-Bernard
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Otte
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000002:abnormalities*