Impact of the Inferior Right Hepatic Veins on Right Liver Lobe Regeneration in Living-Donor Liver Transplant: 3-Dimensional Computed Tomography Scan Analyses in Donors and Recipients.

CONCLUSIONS: The reconstruction policy for inferior right hepatic vein with caliber > 5 mm is effective but should be implemented with computed tomography scan simulation. Right lobe grafts with a dominant inferior right hepatic vein are at higher risk of impaired regeneration due to expected large volumes of hepatic venous congestion if the middle hepatic veins tributaries or the inferior right hepatic veins are not reconstructed and an increased rate of right hepatic vein complications. PMID: 30968763 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Experimental and Clinical Transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Tags: Exp Clin Transplant Source Type: research