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Liver transplantation in patients with situs inversus
1Department of Surgery, University Health Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Clinical Transplantation
|February 1, 1990
Abstract:
Two patients with situs inversus and biliary atresia were treated with hepatic transplantation, one with an auxiliary liver and the other with an orthotopic graft which was placed using a piggy-back technique. Both transplants functioned well initially. The auxiliary liver was rejected after 1 1/2 months, and the patient died after an attempt at retransplantation many months later. The recipient of the orthotopic liver has perfect liver function 10 months postoperatively.