Transplant Procedures

Study Reconsiders Partial Liver Transplants After Group Takes Second Look

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, February 4th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A medical team in France has reconsidered performing partial liver transplant surgeries for patients with fulminant or subfulminant hepatitis after finding that such operations can lead to significant complications.

According to the team's report in the Annals of Surgery, the procedure, called auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation (APOLT), led to more technical complications and neurological events than warranted in a major study comparing it with standard liver transplantation.

In APOLT, only a segment of the patient's liver is removed, leaving the remainder available for attachment with...

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