Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
Fig. 8.1 Completion of end-to-end portal vein anastomosis in orthotopic liver transplantation. The running suture was not fully tied, leaving a loose tract of the thread (“growth factor”) to allow…
Renal Transplantation: Postoperative Technical Complications
Fig. 22.1 CT scan: lymphocele near the right renal graft in a double kidney transplant recipient The treatment consists of simple aspiration, external drainage, and marsupialization of the cyst into…
Retransplantation (Causes, Outcome)
Fig. 14.1 Early postoperative hepatic artery thrombosis, which determined massive hepatic necrosis. The patient died awaiting re-OLT (red arrow: hepatic artery thrombosis) On the other hand, late HAT, occurring more…
Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Fig. 10.1 Diagram showing our “left lobe first choice” approach. Every donor is first screened for a left living donor hepatectomy following this algorithm 10.5 State-of-the-Art Preoperative Planning Preoperative planning…
Renal Transplantation: Kidney Procurement from Cadaveric Donors
Fig. 16.1 Right kidney in the basin during bench surgery. One of the two renal arteries (RA) has been accidentally sectioned from its origin during the retrieval. Ao aorta, RV…
Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Antonio Daniele Pinna and Giorgio Ercolani (eds.)Abdominal Solid Organ Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-16997-2_31 31. Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Ugo Boggi1 , Piero Marchetti2 and Gabriella Amorese3 (1) Division of General and Transplant Surgery, University of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2,…
Combined Abdominal Transplantation: Liver–Kidney
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Antonio Daniele Pinna and Giorgio Ercolani (eds.)Abdominal Solid Organ Transplantation10.1007/978-3-319-16997-2_30 30. Combined Abdominal Transplantation: Liver–Kidney Massimo Del Gaudio1 , Giorgio Ercolani1 , Matteo Cescon1 , Matteo Ravaioli1 , Chiara Zanfi1 , Valentina Bertuzzo1 and Antonio Daniele Pinna1 (1) Division of General and Transplant Surgery…
Segmental Living-Related Small Bowel Transplantation
Flowchart for donor evaluation Comprehensive analysis of medical and surgical history, review of systems, physical examination, current medications, history of malignancy, and previous intestinal surgery ABO compatibility, HLAa type, lymphocytotoxic…
Anesthetic and Perioperative Management for Intestinal Transplantation
Anesthetic induction and maintenance Preenterectomy stage Enterectomy stage Neointestinal stage Routine monitoring electrocardiography pulse oximetry, capnography, temperature, invasive arterial blood pressure, baseline arterial blood gas 8 F or larger cannulas…
Indications and Timing for Intestinal/Multivisceral Transplantation
Adults (n. 688) Children (n. 166) Short bowel syndrome (no. (%)) 514 (74.7 %) 87 (52.4 %) Mesenteric ischemia 36 % Crohn’s disease 29 % Rx enteritis 10 % …
