Peritransplant predictors of small-for-size syndrome and surveillance of graft functions in an Egyptian Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Center

This study was conducted on 45 Egyptian adult recipients and their graft donors in one of Egyptian ALDLT Center. The recipients were divided as follows: group I: included eight recipients diagnosed as SFSS. This group was subdivided into two subgroups according to mortality incidence. Subgroup 1A: included five recipients who are still alive. Subgroup 1B: included three recipients, two of them died after 21 days, and the third one died after 1 month. Group II: included 37 recipients without SFSS. Perioperative predictors of SFSS in both recipients and donors were assessed and compared between the two groups. Results Graft volume recipient weight ratio (GRWR) was the only recipient’s preoperative parameter showing significant difference between the two groups. In comparison between recipients with GRWR of less than 0.8 and recipients with GRWR of more than 0.8, there was significant difference between them as regards splenic artery ligation (P
Source: Egyptian Liver Journal - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Original articles Source Type: research