Journal of Surgery

Radu Zamfir

Publications

• Surgical Techniques
  New Vascular Ligation Technique Applied in Liver Transplantation
  Author(s): Radu Zamfir, Vladislav Brașoveanu, Leonard David, Cristian Lupașcu, Florin Cristian Blăjuț, Tudor Stoian, Luiza Țircă and Irinel PopescuRadu Zamfir, Vladislav Brașoveanu, Leonard David, Cristian Lupașcu, Florin Cristian Blăjuț, Tudor Stoian, Luiza Țircă and Irinel Popescu
  
  Liver procurement is a race against time, which is mainly focused on obtaining a good quality of liver grafts with an ischemia time as short as possible. The actual procurement time definitely influence cold ischemia time, a reduction of it leading to shorter graft cold ischemia time. Methods: We examined the use of tire-ups in the liver procurement, in terms of improving the procurement time (calculated as the time between incision and the time of starting infusing portal vein and aorta with cold preservation solutions). Results: We enrolled in our study two groups of 30 donors each. In the first group we included patients on which we did not use the tire-ups, and in the second patients on which the tire-ups were used for dissection and rapid clamping of the infrarenal aorta and the portal vein. Procurement time in group 1 average.. Read More»
  

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