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Magnetic resonance of the hepatic veins with angular reconstruction: application in living-related liver transplantation.

Abstract：

BACKGROUND:Preoperative mapping of the hepatic venous system of the partial liver graft is indispensable to the success of living-related liver transplantation. We assessed the accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) venography with angular reconstruction in depicting the tributaries of the middle hepatic vein and left hepatic vein in the donors, which was essential in graft retrieval and venoplasty. METHODS:Nineteen living-related liver transplantation donors underwent a pretransplantation survey, including sonography and MRI for hepatic venous evaluation. T1-weighted images were reconstructed manually, using the inferior vena cava as a fixed point for tilting to produce an oblique plane image where both the middle hepatic vein and left hepatic vein could be demonstrated draining into the inferior vena cava. The reconstructed images of the hepatic veins were compared with preoperative sonography, intraoperative sonography, and operative findings. RESULTS:Preoperative sonography and MR findings correlated well with the operative findings in the major hepatic veins. The MR venography of the ramification of the hepatic veins has an accuracy of 93%, the sonography, 84%. Sonography is slightly inferior in the evaluation of the hepatic vein in segment 4 and the left superior hepatic vein, with an accuracy of 73% and 67%, respectively. CONCLUSION:MR venography with angular reconstruction is accurate in depicting the complex distribution of the hepatic veins of the left liver, providing important information for decision making as to the cutting plane during graft retrieval and the method of venoplasty and anastomosis. Thus, unnecessary blood loss could be avoided and vascular complications could be prevented, as these conditions would be unacceptable for a healthy living donor. We propose that MR venography, a rapid and reliable technique, is an appropriate alternative examination or complementary modality to sonography in the pretransplantation evaluation of the living donor.

journal_name

Transplantation

journal_title

Transplantation

authors

Cheng YF,Chen CL,Huang TL,Chen TY,Lee TY,Chen YS,Wang CC,de Villa V,Goto S,Chiang YC,Eng HL,Jawan B,Cheung HK

doi

10.1097/00007890-199907270-00019

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-07-27 00:00:00

pages

267-71

issue

eissn

0041-1337

issn

1534-6080

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Magnetic resonance of the hepatic veins with angular reconstruction: application in living-related liver transplantation.