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Porcine Liver Transplantation Without Veno-Venous Bypass As an Extended Criteria Donor Model
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Epidural catheter and increased prothrombin time after right lobe hepatectomy for living donor transplantation
C J Borromeo1, M S Stix, A Lally
1Departments of Anesthesiology and Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA 01805, USA. carl.j.borromeo@lahey.org
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|October 26, 2000
Abstract
Implications:
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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