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Experience at the Pediatric Department of the Bicetre Hospital in Paris of liver transplantation in 105 children is reported, with special attention to reduced size liver and related complications. Due to the young age of most patients, of which most were treated for biliary atresia, and the size discrepancy of the liver grafts usually retrieved from older donors and adults, a reduced-size liver graft was done in 59% of the cases. Fibrin sealant was used to help with the control of blood oozing from the cut surface of the graft. However, a number of complications occurred, some of them in relation to the reduction of the graft size.
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Valayer, J., Gauthier, F., Yandza, T., DeDreuzy, O., Lababidi, A. (1994). Fibrin Sealing for Hemostasis of the Cut Surface in Reduced-Size Grafts During Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Children. In: Schlag, G., Waclawiczek, HW., Daum, R. (eds) Fibrin Sealing in Surgical and Nonsurgical Fields. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85101-8_23
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