Chedid Marcio F, Albuquerque Henrique W, Guerra Gilda, Chedid Aljamir D, Leipnitz Ian, Pereira Pedro F, Schramm Ricardo V, Kruel Cleber R P, Grezzana-Filho Tomaz J M
Liver and Pancreas Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Medical School of UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
ANZ J Surg. 2020 Oct;90(10):2082-2083. doi: 10.1111/ans.16178. Epub 2020 Sep 9.
During deceased donor procurement, the heart procurement team may cut the supra-hepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) too close to the liver surface, depriving the liver allograft from having enough supra-hepatic IVC to perform the anastomosis with the recipient's IVC or hepatic veins. In such instances, liver grafts usually are deemed as non-appropriate for transplantation, being discarded. Here we report a technique for reconstruction of damaged supra-hepatic IVCs through the use of a segment of the infra-hepatic IVC of the liver graft.
