Novel use of percutaneous thrombosuction to rescue the early thrombosis of the conduit vein graft after living donor liver transplantation

A 54-year-old woman with liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma received a living donor liver transplant. Thrombosis of the segmental hepatic vein occurred on postoperative day 7. We undertook percutaneous catheter thrombosuction under local anesthesia to extract the thrombus successfully with...

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Main Authors: Kuo-Shyang Jeng, MD, FACS, Chun-Chieh Huang, MD, Hao-Yuan Tsai, MD, Jung-Cheng Hsu, MD, Cheng-Kuan Lin, MD, Kuo-Hsin Chen, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468428718300741