title: Experimental liver transplantation on pigs -- technical considerations.
abstract: The purpose was to improve and refine our technique for orthotopic liver transplantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Experimental interventions were performed on pigs, 26 pairs. Orthotopic transplantation was performed after lavage of the donor pig liver by pressure gradient and transplantation was performed using portocavo- jugular shunt and veno-venous, arterio-arterial and choledocho-choledochal sutures in end-to-end manner.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Immediate survival was 88.46%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Experimental transplant activity on pigs is of real value, contributing to a faster learning curve and at the same time improving handling, increasing the efficiency of sutures, as well as anesthetic and surgical team building.
authors: 2nd Surgical Department of the St. Mary's Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. narciscopca@yahoo.com
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authors: Copca
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authors: Hanna
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authors: Pivniceru
authors: V
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authors: Constantinica
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authors: Radilescu
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authors: Gardean
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authors: Campeanu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D058625:End Stage Liver Disease / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000401:mortality; D016019:Survival Analysis; D034421:Sus scrofa; D013552:Swine