title: Living donor liver transplantation with hyperreduced left lateral segments.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Transplant Surgery, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo 157-8535, Japan. kasahara-m@ncchd.go.jp
authors.forename: Mureo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: Akinari
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Tatsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Toshiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Honna
mesh_terms: 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