Abstract
In piggyback liver transplantation, the anastomosis between the cranial portion of the graft inferior vena cava (IVC) and the common stump of the recipient middle and left hepatic veins (ME) has a higher frequency of hepatic venous outflow obstruction. This incidence decreases when a cavo-caval side-to-side anastomosis or the ostium of the three main hepatic veins of the recipient (RML) a…