1000 liver transplantations at the Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw--analysis of indications and results.

The Aim Of The Study: was to analyze indications and results of the first one thousand liver transplantations at Chair and Clinic of General, Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw.

Material And Methods: Data from 1000 transplantations (944 patients) performed at Chair and Clinic of General, Transplantation and Liver Surgery between 1994 and 2011 were analyzed retrospectively. These included 943 first transplantations and 55 retransplantations and 2 re-retransplantations.

Liver regeneration in living-related donors after harvesting of liver segments II and III or II, III and IV.

Background: CT-assisted volumetry permits an estimation of the volume of the graft in liver transplantation, as well as monitoring the donor's liver regeneration. The aim of the study was to observe the restitution of liver tissue in donors after harvesting of the liver fragment for living-related liver transplantation (LRLT).

Methods: The size of the whole liver and of segments II, III and IV was assessed by preoperative CT volumetry in 29 living-related liver donors.

Thrombolytic treatment of portal thrombosis.

Background/aims: The authors present their experience with thrombolytic treatment of "acute" portal thrombosis.

Methodology: Since 1980, portal thrombosis has been diagnosed in 305 patients treated in our Department. Portal thrombosis, mostly chronic, was associated with liver cirrhosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome, inflammatory and malignant liver tumors, as well as hypercoagulation conditions.

Surgical and interventional radiological treatment of Budd-Chiari syndrome: report of nine cases.

Background/aims: The authors present the methods and results of treatment of patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome.

Methodology: From a group of 15 patients with Budd-Chiari syndrome, treated in our department from January 1996 to September 2001, nine patients (6 females and 3 males, aged from 23 to 45 years) were qualified for surgical or radiological treatment. In 3 of them the hepatic vein thrombosis resulted from untreated polycythemia.

Intraabdominal arterio-venous fistulae and their relation to portal hypertension.

Background/aims: The aim of the study was to present, on the base of own experience, clinical importance of arterio-venous fistulae involving the vascular system of the abdomen.

Methodology: Clinical material consists of 18 patients in whom abnormal arterio-venous leakage in the abdomen was disclosed by means of imaging diagnostic techniques and Doppler sonographic hemodynamic investigations. Three groups of patients were determined: 1.