Pringle's manoeuvre in living donors.
The safety of the donor is paramount in living donor liver transplantation. The most important risk to the donor during hepatectomy is bleeding, and the inflow occlusion technique (Pringle's manoeuvre) has been reported to decrease bleeding without inducing liver injury in liver surgery. However, most transplant centres are doing donor hepatectomies without this technique for fear that it would result in ischaemic injury to the graft. We have done 46 living donor hepatectomies with Pringle's manoeuvre without any negative outcome on the quality of the graft. Surgeons should not hesitate to apply this technique in living donor hepatectomy.
Imamura
Hiroshi
H
Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Artificial Organ and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Takayama
Tadatoshi
T
Sugawara
Yasuhiko
Y
Kokudo
Norihiko
N
Aoki
Taku
T
Kaneko
Jun-ichi
J
Matsuyama
Yutaka
Y
Sano
Keiji
K
Maema
Atsushi
A
Makuuchi
Masatoshi
M
D000328:Adult; D016063:Blood Loss, Surgical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011184:Postoperative Period