Breast implant during orthotopic liver transplant to avoid hepatic outflow obstruction
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Luis Eduardo Pérez-Sánchez; Betsabé Reyes Correa; Enrique Moneva Arce; Manuel Ángel Barrera Gómez; Rafael José Orti-Rodríguez
- Source
- Acta Chirurgica Belgica. 120:146-147
- Subject
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Orthotopic liver transplantation
Breast Implants
medicine.medical_treatment
Budd-Chiari Syndrome
Liver transplantation
Inferior vena cava
law.invention
03 medical and health sciences
Postoperative Complications
0302 clinical medicine
law
Complete obstruction
medicine
Humans
cardiovascular diseases
business.industry
food and beverages
Orthotopic Liver Transplant
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Liver Transplantation
Surgery
medicine.vein
Size mismatch
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Breast implant
cardiovascular system
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 0001-5458
Donor-recipient size mismatch in liver transplantation is a recognized but uncommon situation. It can lead to a partial or complete obstruction of the inferior vena cava with subsequent hepatic outflow obstruction. Placement of a breast implant in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen during liver transplantation is a technically easy resource and can protect the liver graft from kinking or rotation.