Liver function impairment in liver transplantation and after extended hepatectomy

Salvage dual graft living donor liver transplantation after major hepatectomy

Salvage living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) after major hepatectomy has been considered a challenging procedure due to operative complexity. We report a successful case of salvage dual graft LDLT after right hepatectomy. A 48-year-old male was transferred to Daegu Catholic University Medical Center because of duodenal variceal bleeding. He underwent right hepatectomy due to hepatocellular...

Delayed Gastric Emptying after Living Donor Hepatectomy for Liver Transplantation

Delayed gastric emptying is a significant postoperative complication of living donor hepatectomy for liver transplantation and may require endoscopic or surgical intervention in severe cases. Although the mechanism of posthepatectomy delayed gastric emptying remains unknown, vagal nerve injury during intraoperative dissection and adhesion formation postoperatively between the stomach and cut li...

Liver regeneration after liver transplantation.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE The liver has a remarkable capacity to regenerate after injury or resection. The aim of this review is to outline the mechanisms and factors affecting liver regeneration after liver transplantation. METHODS Relevant studies were reviewed using Medline, PubMed and Springer databases. RESULTS A variety of cytokines (such as interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor-α), growth...

Liver Biopsy After Liver Transplantation

Regeneration of mouse liver after partial hepatectomy.

The rapidly growing liver tissue after partial hepatectomy has been used advantageously by in vestigators to study changes during accelerated growth and proliferation of cells (4, 7, 12, 15). Previous reports have been chiefly on rats. In many instances, pooled samples were taken for chemical data. In the present investigation a com prehensive study was made on individual samples of regeneratin...