title: Monosegmental living-donor liver transplantation for infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma.
abstract: Infantile hepatic hemangioendothelioma (IHHE) is a rare vascular tumor that presents before the age of 6 months. The patients with IHHE suffer from high-output congestive heart failure caused by major arteriovenous fisutulas in the liver, which leads to respiratory compromise and results in a high mortality rate despite medical treatments. A case of 4-month-old baby with liver failure caused by IHHE is reported. The baby received an urgent liver transplantation from a living donor. A monosegmental graft was used to mitigate graft-to- recipient size mismatching. The surgical procedure of monosegmental living donor liver transplantation also is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Organ Transplant Unit, Department of Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Mureo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kiuchi
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Haga
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uemoto
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uryuhara
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ogura
authors.forename: Fumitaka
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oike
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yokoi
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaihara
authors.forename: Hiroto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Egawa
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D006390:Hemangioendothelioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male