Relationship Between Venous Drainage Patterns and Regeneration of Segments 5 and 8 in Right Lobe Grafts in Adult Living-Donor Liver Transplant Recipients.

CONCLUSIONS: In living-donor liver transplant with right lobe graft and without middle hepatic vein, segment 5 is the most vulnerable graft area for impaired regeneration. Segments 5 and 8 should be evaluated independently on the basis of their respective outflow patterns to more precisely plan the outflow management and patient outcomes. PMID: 30995896 [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