Living donor liver transplantation with hyperreduced left lateral segments.
Liver transplantation is now an established technique to treat children with end-stage liver disease. Implantation of left lateral segment grafts (Couidaud's segments II and III) can be a problem in small infants because of a large-for-size graft. Reduced left lateral segmental liver transplantation has been recently introduced for small infants to mitigate the problem of large-for-size graft. Further reduction of the left lateral segment graft increases the possibility of supplying an adequate hyperreduced left lateral segment graft as an alternative surgical technique. We report 3 cases of our experience of transplantation using hyperreduced left lateral segment grafts from living donors.
Kasahara
Mureo
M
Department of Transplant Surgery, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo 157-8535, Japan. kasahara-m@ncchd.go.jp
Fukuda
Akinari
A
Yokoyama
Satoshi
S
Sato
Shuichi
S
Tanaka
Hideaki
H
Kuroda
Tatsuo
T
Honna
Toshiro
T
D005260:Female; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome