Preoperative imaging of donor patients for adult right-lobe liver transplantation.
A major discrepency exists between the number of available cadaveric livers and patients requiring liver transplants, which has resulted in the innovative procurement of liver segments taken from healthy donors being implanted into cirrhotic patients. Most recently, liver surgeons have started resecting the entire right lobe (segments V-VIII) from healthy adult donor livers, and implanting these segments into recipients where the graft is able to sustain and maintain metabolic function and fully regenerate.
Kamel
Ihab R
IR
Abdominal Imaging Section, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Kruskal
Jonathan B
JB
Warmbrand
Gisele
G
Reynolds
Kevin F
KF
Raptopoulos
Vassilios
V
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008099:Liver / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011300:Preoperative Care; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed