Open AccessUse of Recipient's Left Hepatic Artery for Artery Reconstruction in Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation With Duct-to-Duct Anastomosis
Author(s) -
Hideaki Uchiyama,
Toru Ikegami,
Yuji Soejima,
Mizuki Ninomiya,
Hiroto Kuwabara,
Akinobu Taketomi,
Ken Shirabe,
Yoshihiko Maehara
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/tp.0b013e3181ce77c4
Subject(s) - medicine , anastomosis , liver transplantation , left hepatic duct , living donor liver transplantation , surgery , bile duct , transplantation , hepatectomy , lobe , gauche effect , artery , left lobe , anatomy , resection
The hepatic arteries (HAs) in a hepatic graft are usually reconstructed using the recipient's left or right HAs in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). There have been no apparent selection criteria concerning which of the recipient's HAs should be used. This study retrospectively investigated whether the selection of left or right HA for HA reconstruction affects the outcomes of right lobe LDLT (RL-LDLT).