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"Early-stage" cirrhotic liver can withstand 75 minutes of inflow occlusion during resection
Y I Kim1, M Kobayashi, M Aramaki
1Department of Surgery I, Oita Medical University, Japan.
Hepato-Gastroenterology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
The cirrhotic liver is sensitive to prolonged hypoxia. We treated two patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in association with early stage of liver cirrhosis. Resection of segment VII, and segments V plus VII, respectively, was done, with no untoward effects, under 75 minutes of "uninterrupted" portal triad occlusion. The tolerance of the cirrhotic liver to normothermic inflow occlusion is discussed.