title: A modification to facilitate end-to-side portacaval anastomosis in rats: description of a modified technique.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a modified technique of end-to-side portacaval shunt in the rat in order to simplify this relevant microsurgical model of liver disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  A loop in the distal end of the suture makes it easier both, the beginning and the end, of the portacaval anastomoses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This surgical innovation decreases the technical difficulty of the portacaval shunt in the rat without adding complications, like portal hypertension related to anastomoses stenosis or hemorrhage.
authors.affiliation: Surgery I Department, Medical School, Complutense University of Madrid, Pza. de Ramón y Cajal s.n., 28040 Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Patán
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Anchuelo
authors.forename: María Angeles
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Aller
authors.forename: Jaime
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arias
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D023421:Models, Animal; D011167:Portacaval Shunt, Surgical / Q000379:methods*; D051381:Rats