Fifteen millimeters of mercury
Fifteen millimeters of mercury
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十五毫米汞柱
DOI:
10.1002/lt.22087
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
B. D. Campos
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文献类型:
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作者:
J. Botha;B. D. Campos
Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (AALDLT) has evolved significantly in the last decade. Because of size constraints, the right lobe has become the preferred graft. However, right hepatectomy carries a greater risk than left hepatectomy. The mortality of right lobe donation has been estimated to be between 2 and 5 per 1000 hepatectomies. This risk makes right lobe donation ethically difficult, particularly in countries that have access to cadaveric organs. Donor safety remains the overriding concern and has recently resulted in a resurgence of interest in the use of the left lobe graft. Smaller grafts lead to an increased risk of development of small-for-size syndrome (SFSS). Excessive and destructive portal flow through a liver graft that is too small to accommodate this flow appears to ultimately affect graft function and leads to its failure. Over the past decade, a significant amount of animal data has stressed portal hyperperfusion as the critical factor in the development of SFSS. Animal models of partial liver transplantation have demonstrated multiple microvascular injuries after reperfusion inversely related to graft size. The diversion of portal flow in animal models has shown an absence of microvascular injury and improved graft function. The impact of portal vein inflow has led to the clinical development of several techniques to decrease portal vein pressure (PVP), including splenectomy, splenic artery ligation (SAL), splenorenal shunting, hemiportocaval shunting (HPCS), and mesocaval shunting with downstream ligation of the superior mesenteric vein. Several smaller reports of surgical modulation of PVP have demonstrated improved overall patient survival as well as decreased occurrence of SFSS in AALDLT with small grafts. In this issue of Liver Transplantation, Ogura and colleagues from the University of Kyoto report a retrospective analysis of their experience with intentional modulation of PVP in living donor liver transplantation and its positive effect on graft function and survival. Despite the retrospective nature of the study, it has enough statistical power for valuable conclusions to be drawn. Ogura and colleagues divided their experience into 2 periods before and after 2006, a year in which 3 substantial conceptual changes took place in their approach to AA-LDLT: intentional PVP modulation (PVP <15 mm Hg), use of smaller grafts (graft weight/recipient weight ratio > 0.7), and increased selection of left lobe grafts. Statistically significant differences between these 2 periods were as follows: older recipient age, higher Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score, and smaller graft size. These differences strengthen the survival benefit of PVP modulation as well as its positive effect on graft function. In other words, this article documents that transplantation of smaller grafts into older patients with more advanced disease led to improved survival when PVP was reduced to <15 mm Hg. Overall survival rates were roughly improved by 10% between the 2 periods (1and 3-year survival of 76.2% and 68.8% versus 87.9% and 81.6%, respectively). Portal hypertension is defined as an increase in the pressure gradient between the portal vein and the hepatic veins or inferior vena cava. Physiological PVP ranges from 5 to 8 mm Hg. A pressure gradient of 12 mm Hg is regarded as clinically significant portal hypertension. On the basis of these physiological parameters and these new survival data with PVP modulation, we can assume that recipients of a partial liver graft with a PVP greater than 20 mm Hg will most likely have a gradient greater than 12 mm Hg. The
DOI:
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发表时间:
2005
期刊:
World Journal of Gastroenterology Vol.11(44)
影响因子:
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作者:
H.S.Wang;S.Satomi;et al.
通讯作者:
et al.