Liver Transplantation
Study results from Nagoya University broaden understanding of liver transplantation
Published in Blood Weekly, December 23rd, 2010
2010 DEC 23 -- According to recent research from Nagoya, Japan, "Hepatic venous congestion after living donor liver transplantation using right lobe graft produces various abnormalities on ultrasonography. Doppler sonography can reveal reversal of the portal flow direction in patients with acute and severe venous congestion and can show the presence of a functional intrahepatic anastomosis between the hepatic vein tributaries during the follow-up period in those people with improved congestion."
"However, few abnormal findings have so far been observed using gray-scale ultrasonography. Thirteen patients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation using...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-12-23)
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