Management of Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in 231 Patients Who Underwent Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center in Nagasaki, Japan

Takashi Hamada; Masaaki Hidaka; Akihiko Soyama; Takanobu Hara; Hajime Imamura; Hajime Matsushima; Takayuki Tanaka; Tomohiko Adachi; Kengo Kanetaka; Susumu Eguchi

doi:10.12659/AOT.936371

23 August 2022 : Original article

Management of Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in 231 Patients Who Underwent Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center in Nagasaki, Japan

Takashi Hamada^1ABCDEF, Masaaki Hidaka^1ACDEF*, Akihiko Soyama

^1ACDF, Takanobu Hara

^1ADF, Hajime Imamura

^1ADF, Hajime Matsushima

^1ADF, Takayuki Tanaka^1ADF, Tomohiko Adachi^1ADF, Kengo Kanetaka

^1DF, Susumu Eguchi^1ADF

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.936371

Ann Transplant 2022; 27:e936371

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Figure 2 Overall survival of patients with spontaneous portosystemic shunts (SPSS) in ligation and non-ligation groupsThe overall survival rate at 1, 3, and 5 years were 80%, 80%, and 80%, respectively, in the ligation group, and 76%, 68%, and 55%, respectively, in the non-ligation group. This difference was not statistically significant (P=0.17).

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Management of Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in 231 Patients Who Underwent Living Donor Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center in Nagasaki, Japan

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