Laparoscopic decision-making concerning the repair area for traumatic abdominal wall pseudohernia: A case report.

Laparoscopic decision-making may be useful for accurately determining the repair area when treating abdominal wall pseudohernia. A 31-year-old man was admitted with a pelvic ring fracture after a traffic accident and underwent orthopedic surgery. Five months after surgery, the patient developed a lower abdominal protrusion.

The extra-anatomical jump graft reconstruction of the right hepatic artery after resection of a biliary tract malignancy with a common hepatic artery aneurysm: a case report.

Performing resection of a biliary tract malignancy with a hepatic artery aneurysm is very challenging. Resection of the extrahepatic bile duct and extra-anatomical reconstruction can be successfully performed using free radial artery autografts from the aorta to the right hepatic artery. Hepatic artery thrombosis can be prevented with intimal preservation.

Surgical resection of recurrent extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus extending into the right atrium under cardiopulmonary bypass: a case report and review of the literature.

Background: Recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma accompanied by a right atrial tumor thrombus is rare. No standard treatment modality has been established. Surgical treatment may be the only curative treatment; however, surgery has been considered high risk.

Short Oxygenated Warm Perfusion With Prostaglandin E1 Administration Before Cold Preservation as a Novel Resuscitation Method for Liver Grafts From Donors After Cardiac Death in a Rat In Vivo Model.

Background: We previously demonstrated that short oxygenated warm perfusion (SOWP) prevented warm ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat livers from donors after cardiac death (DCDs) in an ex vivo model. In the present study, we aimed to examine the in vivo effects of SOWP and SOWP with prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) in DCD rat liver transplants.

Methods: We performed liver transplantation after 6-hour cold preservation using grafts retrieved from DCD rats, divided into nontreatment (NT), SOWP, and SOWP with PGE1 (SOWP + PG) treatment groups.

A new liver graft preparation method for uncontrolled non-heart-beating donors, combining short oxygenated warm perfusion and prostaglandin E1.

Background: To resolve the shortage of donors associated with liver transplantation, the potential uncontrolled non-heart-beating donor (UNHBD) pool is expected to increase. However, warm ischemia-reperfusion injury leads to inferior survival in transplantation using the grafts from UNHBD compared with those from heart-beating donors. To overcome this problem, we developed a new method for preparation of liver grafts from UNHBDs consisting of a combination of short oxygenated warm perfusion (SOWP) and prostaglandin E1 (PGE1).