| Literature DB >> 24229036 |
Hironori Hayashi1, Hiroyuki Takamura, Takumi Taniguchi, Shin-ichi Nakanuma, Hisatoshi Nakagawara, Hidehiro Tajima, Hirohisa Kitagawa, Ichiro Onishi, Takashi Tani, Tetsuo Ohta.
Abstract
Blood purification therapy is indispensable for liver transplant recipients. The case of a living donor liver transplant recipient who represented graft insufficiency and was supported by novel blood purification "plasma diafiltration" immediately after operation is presented. A 60-year-old woman was referred for living donor liver transplant because of liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis C. Elective living donor liver transplant was performed, but the graft was small for size. Thus, the signs of graft insufficiency appeared immediately after the operation, and plasma diafiltration was used as a bridge to graft regeneration. After plasma diafiltration was started, the recipient recovered promptly, and withdrawal was performed 35 hours after induction without any complications. Plasma diafiltration is a useful and safe liver support for liver transplant recipients, including immediately after liver transplantation.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24229036 PMCID： PMC3829076 DOI： 10.9738/INTSURG-D-13-00047.1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Int Surg ISSN： 0020-8868