Technique of arterial anastomosis in liver transplantation, surgical management in routine situations and anatomical variations.
With a careful donor hepatectomy in order to preserve and, if necessary, to reconstruct accessory liver arteries and a microsurgical technique for the arterial anastomosis the rate of arterial complications after liver transplantation can be kept at a low level.
Lemmens
H P
HP
Surgical Clinic, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, FRG.
Blumhardt
G
G
Neuhaus
P
P
Keck
H
H
Tsiblakis
N
N
Rossaint
R
R
Langer
R
R
Steffen
R
R
D000328:Adult; D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D008866:Microsurgery; D012086:Reoperation; D015996:Survival Rate