title: Passing loop technique for portal inflow modulation in liver recipients with partial portal vein thrombosis: a case report.
abstract: Refinements of surgical techniques in liver transplant during the last 10 years have offered more successful outcomes for recipients with portal vein thrombosis. Patency of the portal vein after a thrombectomy can be neither adequately evaluated, nor objectively assessed; therefore, we suggest that rerouting part of the portal flow through a "passing loop," with or without augmenting the portal flow, may be a salvage procedure, when there is a possible postoperative rethrombosis of the portal vein.
authors.affiliation: From the King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Liver Transplant and HBP Surgery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Firas
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zahr Eldeen
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al Sebayel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001705:Bioprosthesis; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015925:Cryopreservation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007084:Iliac Vein / Q000637:transplantation*; D008102:Liver Circulation; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D019520:Living Donors; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D017131:Thrombectomy; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D014654:Vascular Patency; D020246:Venous Thrombosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*