title: A technique of diamond-shape venoplasty to reconstruct the hepatic venous outflow in living donor liver transplantation for a case of Budd-Chiari syndrome.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. csliu@vghtpe.gov.tw
authors.forename: Chinsu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Cheng-Yuan
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Hsia
authors.forename: Che-Chuan
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Loong
authors.forename: Cheng-Kang
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Perng
authors.forename: Chen-Hsung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Hsin-Lin
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Mei-Yung
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Tsou
authors.forename: Choufu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wei
mesh_terms: 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*