Difficulty in sustaining hepatic outflow in left lobe but not right lobe living donor liver transplantation.

Background: Hepatic outflow block is one of the major complications leading to severe graft dysfunction after left lobe living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Methods: Medical records of 46 recipients of a left lobe LDLT were reviewed. The method of outflow reconstruction and post-transplant morphological changes of hepatic veins were investigated.

Reduction of left-lateral segment from living donors for liver transplantation in infants weighing less than 7 kg: technical aspects and outcome.

LLS reduction has been frequently used in infants weighing <7 kg. Twenty recipients weighing <7 kg at the time of LDLT, median age 11.0 months and body weight 5.

Undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver.

Undifferentiated sarcoma of the liver (USL) is one of the rare malignant liver tumors of mesenchymal origin in children and adolescents. USL is difficult to diagnose in its early stages and sometimes the tumor ruptures. We present the case of a 13-year-old boy with USL that ruptured because of abdominal trauma.

Living domino liver transplantation in an adult with congenital absence of portal vein.

Congenital absence of the portal vein (CAPV) is a rare malformation of the splanchnic venous system. Although CAPV is usually detected in the pediatric age group, our patient was a 35-year-old woman. She had been diagnosed with CAPV in 1996 when she was 27 years old.