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Surgical Techniques in Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplantation

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Liver transplantation is a complex treatment, the success of which is largely dependent on a smooth surgical procedure. Good knowledge of all, congenital or acquired, anatomic variations as well as optimal collaboration and timing between donor and recipient surgeries are necessary in order to be successful. The surgical procedure needs to be individualized to the recipient and his/her underlying disease, the severity of portal hypertension, the vascular status, and the donor–recipient (D/R) weight matching.

This chapter highlights the most important knacks and pitfalls of the standard LT procedure and its’ technical variants, split, auxiliary, and sequential transplantation, in both children and adults.

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Lerut, J., de Ville de Goyet, J. (2022). Surgical Techniques in Adult and Paediatric Liver Transplantation. In: Burra, P. (eds) Textbook of Liver Transplantation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82930-8_12

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