Side-to-side cavo-cavostomy: a useful aid in "complicated" piggy-back liver transplantation.
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Side-to-side cavo-cavostomy: a useful aid in "complicated" piggy-back liver transplantation.

  • Lerut J Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
  • Gertsch P
  • 1993-01-01
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  • Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation. - 1993
English Piggy-back liver transplantation is a useful technical variant of orthotopic liver transplantation. Its success can, however, be compromised by severe stenosis or obstruction of the recipient's inferior vena cava at the level of the anastomosis. A technique is described--side-to-side cavocavostomy--to resolve this difficult intraoperative situation.
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