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Factors Affecting Liver Regeneration in Donors' Grafts in Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) a Center Experience

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Background: Liver regeneration for donors' graft in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), is an example for liver regeneration in normal liver. In this study we spotted the light on liver regeneration in donors after LDLT, focusing on factors affecting it. Aim: To study the impact of different factors on liver regeneration in donors of living donor liver transplantation. Patients and methods: Between May 2013 and June 2019, 80 living donor liver transplants were performed in the liver transplant unit in EL-Maadi Armed Forces Hospital. All donors who provided liver grafts underwent volumetric spiral computed tomography (CT) scans preoperatively and postoperatively at time intervals of 1 week and 1, 3 and 6 months. Patients’ demographics, surgical data, and postoperative outcomes were correlated with liver regeneration data. 63 patients were males and 17 patients were females, with mean age 27.97yrs ± 5.3. They provided {72} right lobe (RL) grafts and 8 right posterior sector (RP) grafts. Results: No donor operation was aborted and surgical morbidity rate was {33.75%}, mostly biliary. All RP donors achieved complete liver regeneration after 3 months; only four RL donors achieved complete liver regeneration at 6 months. Conclusion: In this study, it was found that there were factors affecting regeneration like age, gender of the patient and graft size. But no effect was found with many factors as peri-operative liver function tests, steatosis, BMI, operative time, blood loss, blood transfusion and postoperative complications.

DOI 10.11648/j.js.20190704.11
Published in Journal of Surgery (Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2019)
Page(s) 87-95
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Liver Transplantation, Liver Regeneration, Living Donors

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  • Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit, General Surgery Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

  • Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit, General Surgery Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

  • General Surgery Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

  • Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit, General Surgery Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt

  • Liver Transplant Unit in Hepato-Biliary Department, El-Maadi Armed Forces Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

  • Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit, Rennes University, Rennes, France

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