A technique of diamond-shape venoplasty to reconstruct the hepatic venous outflow in living donor liver transplantation for a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
It is difficult to reconstruct the hepatic venous outflow in LDLT for the case of BCS, especially when the thrombosis extends to the retro-hepatic and supra-hepatic vena cava. We reported on a technique of diamond-shape venoplasty which successfully treated such a case. The venoplasty used autologous vein grafts to overcome the size discrepancy between the orifices of supra-diaphragmatic inferior vena cava and hepatic vein of the liver graft.
Liu
Chinsu
C
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. csliu@vghtpe.gov.tw
Hsia
Cheng-Yuan
CY
Loong
Che-Chuan
CC
Perng
Cheng-Kang
CK
Huang
Chen-Hsung
CH
Tsai
Hsin-Lin
HL
Tsou
Mei-Yung
MY
Wei
Choufu
C
D006502:Budd-Chiari Syndrome / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D006503:Hepatic Veins / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D014680:Veins / Q000637:transplantation; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000601:surgery*