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. 1992 Mar;13(3):101-5.

Orthotopic liver transplantation in the pig: a surgical experience with 124 liver transplants

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  • PMID: 1581168

Orthotopic liver transplantation in the pig: a surgical experience with 124 liver transplants

F Filipponi et al. G Chir. 1992 Mar.

Abstract

From January 1988 to June 1990 one-hundred-twenty-four orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) were performed in pigs, using a surgical procedure already described in the literature but with two major modifications. One of these modifications was the end-to-end microsurgical anastomosis of the proper hepatic arteries of the donor and recipient; the second one was the reduction in length of the donor suprahepatic vena cava to 1-2 mm before anastomosing it with the recipient suprahepatic vena cava at the level of the diaphragm. The first 24 transplants were used to develop the surgical technique. The latter was then applied to all subsequent 100 transplants, and results are herein presented. Good outcome of surgery appeared to depend on the modifications adopted in surgical technique, use of a pump-driven veno-venous bypass during the anhepatic phase of surgery, administration of cyclosporin A postoperatively, and training of the operator.

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