Passing loop technique for portal inflow modulation in liver recipients with partial portal vein thrombosis: a case...

Refinements of surgical techniques in liver transplant during the last 10 years have offered more successful outcomes for recipients with portal vein thrombosis. Patency of the portal vein after a thrombectomy can be neither adequately evaluated, nor objectively assessed; therefore, we suggest that rerouting part of the portal flow through a "passing loop," with or without augmenting the portal flow, may be a salvage procedure, when there is a possible postoperative rethrombosis of the portal vein.