title: The past and present of liver suture.
abstract: Since the first attempts at resecting parts of diseased livers in the late nineteenth century, hemorrhage has been the main obstacle for surgeons. One of the first hemostasis techniques in liver resection was liver suture. The idea of suturing the liver in order to perform resection was proposed by a team of Russian and Polish surgeons from Kharkiv University in today's Ukraine. The liver suture became widely popular and has been used in various forms throughout the surgical world. Further into the twentieth century, it has lost much of its popularity; however, over more than 100 years of existence it has seen several peaks in interest. Currently, it is still being used by some liver surgeons as it is one of the cheapest ways of obtaining a bloodless liver parenchyma transection.
authors.affiliation: Liver Transplant Program, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, alkomorowski@wp.pl.
authors.forename: Andrzej L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Komorowski
authors.forename: Andriy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lukashenko
authors.forename: Yu-Chung
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D006488:Hemostasis, Surgical / Q000266:history*; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries / Q000601:surgery; D011044:Poland; D012421:Rupture; D012425:Russia (Pre-1917); D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000639:trends; D013537:Sutures / Q000266:history