Hemodynamic Monitoring Protocol During Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Lack of Correlation Between Preoperative and Intraoperative Liver Hemodynamics

“…Because liver hemodynamics plays a major role in the genesis of the small-for-size syndrome (6Y11), back in 2003, we started the hemodynamic monitoring protocol for all patients undergoing adult living-donor liver transplantation (aLDLT), with the aim of describing the hemodynamic changes that occur during the procedure, as well as being able to identify factors patients at risk of presenting with excessive portal hyperperfusion (12). To do so, we intended to correlate hemodynamic measurements taken before and during transplantation, but we felt that, probably due to the factors mentioned above, correlation might be impaired.…”