Evolution of Liver Transplantation in Kazakhstan: Two-Era Experience of a Single Center, the First Report.

Background: Liver transplantation has been performed in Kazakhstan since 2011. The present study aimed to analyze the outcomes of the most experienced liver transplant center in Kazakhstan.

Methods: Between December 2011 and December 2018, 131 liver transplantations were performed at A.

Extra-Anatomic Jump Graft Arterial Reconstruction Using a Great Saphenous Vein Autograft During Living Donor Liver Transplantation.

Background: In living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT), successful microsurgical arterial reconstruction is essential but quite challenging. Dissection of the hepatic artery extending to the celiac trunk is a rare complication during liver transplantation. Kazakhstan is an area in which deceased donor grafts are not sufficient for several reasons, and the availability of graft vessels is limited.

[Optimization of diagnosis and methods of liver resection in alveolar echinococcosis].

36 resections of the liver were carried out. 66.7% of them were hemihepatectomies and extended hemihepatectomies due to sever parasitic lesions of the liver parenchyma.

[Hepatic echinococcosis and its surgical treatment].

973 patients were operated for the period of 14 years for echinococcosis of the abdominal cavity. Echinococcosis of the liver was revealed in 742 (76.2%) patients.

[The diagnosis and surgical treatment of cavernous hemangiomas of the liver].

The authors have examined 80 patients with cavernous hemangiomas. The disease was diagnosed on the basis of an ultrasonic investigation, computed tomography and laparoscopy. Solitary hemangiomas were diagnosed in 78 patients, multiple ones in 2.