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Technique of Porcine Liver Procurement and Orthotopic Transplantation using an Active Porto-Caval Shunt
Published on: May 7, 2015
Combined cardiac surgery and liver transplantation
D E Eckhoff1, L Frenette, M T Sellers
1Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Immunobiology and Transplant Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. devin.eckhoff@ccc.uab.edu
Abstract:
During evaluation for liver transplantation, a 63-year-old man with cirrhosis secondary to hepatitis C was diagnosed with severe aortic stenosis (aortic valve area, 0.87 cm(2)) and coronary artery disease. A combined procedure involving aortic valve replacement (pericardial xenograft), coronary artery bypass surgery, and orthotopic liver transplantation was performed. Convalescence was uneventful, and at 2 years after the procedure, the patient has normal cardiac function, good prosthetic valve function, and biochemically normal liver function.
