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Technique of Porcine Liver Procurement and Orthotopic Transplantation using an Active Porto-Caval Shunt
Published on: May 7, 2015
Lateral cavo-caval shunt: an alternative veno-venous bypass in liver surgery
Michel Rayar1,2,3, Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri1, Marc Blondeau1
1CHU Rennes, Service de Chirurgie Hépatobiliaire et Digestive, Rennes, France.
Abstract:
When inferior vena cava (IVC) resection is mandatory during liver surgery, use of a veno-venous bypass (VVB) is usually required despite its specific related adverse events. We describe a safe and alternative technique which allows both derivation of the portal and the caval blood flow by performing a lateral cavo-caval shunt using a prosthetic graft.
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