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Splitting of the middle hepatic vein in full‐right full‐left splitting of the liver
Author(s) -
Broering Dieter C.,
Bok Pamela,
Mueller Lars,
Wilms Christian,
Rogiers Xavier
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
liver transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.814
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1527-6473
pISSN - 1527-6465
DOI - 10.1002/lt.20312
Subject(s) - medicine , economic shortage , vein , portal vein , liver transplantation , surgery , anatomy , transplantation , government (linguistics) , linguistics , philosophy
Full‐right/full‐left splitting of the liver offers a chance to overcome the severe shortage of donor organs. During this procedure, the splitting surgeons are always faced with the question of how to share the middle hepatic vein (MHV), since this vein drains parts of both halves of the liver. Consequently, we developed a procedure that splits the MHV, thus creating an MHV on both grafts. In this short article, we report on this splitting technique and our first initial experience. (Liver Transpl 2005;11:350–352.)