Liver Transplant

Data on liver transplant described by G.D. Arzu et al

Published in Blood Weekly, October 2nd, 2008

According to a study from Modena, Italy, "In liver transplantation (OLT) a porto-caval shunt is a well-defined technique practiced by many surgeons in several centers. We considered 186 cadaveric OLT patients who under-went a cavo-cavostomy-type reconstruction; they were divided into two groups: those in whom we performed a porto-caval shunt (group A) and those in whose we did not (group B)."

"We evaluated several variables: warm and total ischemia time, intraoperative blood and fresh frozen plasma transfusions, crystalloid and colloid requirements, blood loss, operative duration, hemodynamic intraoperative changes and diuresis, length of hospital stay, and creatinine...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-10-02)

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