Conceptual changes in small-for-size graft and small-for-size syndrome in living donor liver transplantationConceptual changes in small-for-size graft and small-for-size syndrome in living donor liver transplantation
- Other Titles
- Conceptual changes in small-for-size graft and small-for-size syndrome in living donor liver transplantation
- Authors
- Toru Ikegami; Jong Man Kim; Dong-Hwan Jung; Yuji Soejima; 김동식; Jae Won Joh; Sung Gyu Lee; Tomoharu Yoshizumi; Masaki Mori
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- 대한이식학회
- Keywords
- Living donor liver transplantation; Small-for-size graft; Small-for-size-syndrome; Early allograft dysfunction
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Transplantation, v.33, no.4, pp.65 - 73
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- Korean Journal of Transplantation
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 65
- End Page
- 73
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/70597
- ISSN
- 1598-1711
- Abstract
- Early series in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in adults demonstrated a lower safe limit of graft volume standard liver volume ratio 25%–45%. A subsequent worldwide large LDLT series proposed a 0.8 graft recipient weight ratio (GRWR) to define small-for-size graft (SFSG) in adult LDLT. Thereafter, researchers identified innate and inevitable factors including changes in liver volume during imaging studies and graft shrinkage due to perfusion solution. Although the definition of small-for-size syndrome (SFSS) advocated in the 2000s was mainly based on prolonged cholestasis and ascites output, the term SFSS was inadequate to describe clinical manifestations possibly caused by multiple factors. Thus, the term “early allograft dysfunction (EAD),” characterized by total bilirubin >10 mg/dL or coagulopathy with international normalized ratio >1.6 on day 7, has become prevalent to describe graft dysfunction including SFSS after LDLT. Although various efforts have been made to overcome EAD in LDLT, graft selection to maintain an expected GRWR >0.8 and full venous drainage, as well as inflow modulation using splenic artery ligation, have become standard in recent LDLT.
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