Preoperative imaging of donor patients for adult right-lobe liver transplantation

Surg Technol Int. 2002 Sep:10:186-91.

Abstract

A major discrepency exists between the number of available cadaveric livers and patients requiring liver transplants, which has resulted in the innovative procurement of liver segments taken from healthy donors being implanted into cirrhotic patients. Most recently, liver surgeons have started resecting the entire right lobe (segments V-VIII) from healthy adult donor livers, and implanting these segments into recipients where the graft is able to sustain and maintain metabolic function and fully regenerate.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Liver / anatomy & histology*
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Preoperative Care*
  • Tissue and Organ Harvesting*
  • Tomography, Spiral Computed*