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- Title
Pringle's manoeuvre in living donors.
- Authors
Imamura, Hiroshi; Takayama, Tadatoshi; Sugawara, Yasuhiko; Kokudo, Norihiko; Aoki, Taku; Kaneko, Jun-ichi; Matsuyama, Yutaka; Sano, Keiji; Maema, Atsushi; Makuuchi, Masatoshi
- Abstract
The safety of the donor is paramount in living donor liver transplantation. The most important risk to the donor during hepatectomy is bleeding, and the inflow occlusion technique (Pringle's manoeuvre) has been reported to decrease bleeding without inducing liver injury in liver surgery. However, most transplant centres are doing donor hepatectomies without this technique for fear that it would result in ischaemic injury to the graft. We have done 46 living donor hepatectomies with Pringle's manoeuvre without any negative outcome on the quality of the graft. Surgeons should not hesitate to apply this technique in living donor hepatectomy.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2002, Vol 360, Issue 9350, p2049
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/s0140-6736(02)11995-7