Epidural catheter and increased prothrombin time after right lobe hepatectomy for living donor transplantation
- PMID: 11049898
- DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200011000-00018
Epidural catheter and increased prothrombin time after right lobe hepatectomy for living donor transplantation
Abstract
Donor right hepatic lobectomy for the purpose of living liver transplantation may be associated with postoperative abnormalities in tests of clotting function. This study explores the possible causes and anesthetic implications of this phenomenon.
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