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Artery Reconstruction in Right Lobe Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Donor-Recipient Vessel Ratio Is Key to Choosing Recipient Artery
Ist Teil von
Annals of plastic surgery, 2022-06, Vol.88 (6), p.674
Ort / Verlag
United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The aims of this study were to investigate if recipient artery choice in right lobe living donor liver transplant affects postoperative complications and discuss solutions accordingly.
Three hundred fourteen right lobe living donor liver transplantation patients were divided into 2 groups: 163 patients using right hepatic artery as the recipient vessel and 151 patients using left hepatic artery as the recipient vessel. Cases involving 2 recipient blood vessels or the use of other blood vessels as recipient vessels were excluded.
Overall vascular embolism rate in both groups was 1.3%, and our complication rate was lower than those in previous studies. There was no significant difference in complication rate between the groups, but a significant difference in recipient/donor artery size ratio was noted.
Although left hepatic artery's anatomical position makes it less affected by bile duct anastomosis and thus fewer postoperative complications, we believe that the ratio of the donor-recipient blood vessel size and the length of the anastomosis vessel stumps are the key factors that affect the outcome of the vascular anastomosis.