Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Renoportal Anastomosis for a Patient with Congenital Absence of the Portal Vein

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="670289.fig.002a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cris/volume-2012/670289/figures/670289.fig.002a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Dilated inferior mesenteric vein  </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="670289.fig.002b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cris/volume-2012/670289/figures/670289.fig.002b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b> Renoportal anastomosis with native inferior mesenteric vein graft interposition</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Renoportal anastomosis with the interpositional vein graft. (a) The intraoperative view shows the dilated collateral vein (arrow) procured as an interposition vein graft. (b) After the completion of the renoportal anastomosis with the vein graft (arrow).</table>

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Figure 2: Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Renoportal Anastomosis for a Patient with Congenital Absence of the Portal Vein 