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.001a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cris/volume-2012/670289/figures/670289.fig.001a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b> Huge splenorenal shunt </td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="670289.fig.001b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/cris/volume-2012/670289/figures/670289.fig.001b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Retrograde flow of inferior mesenteric vein </td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Preoperative angiography. (a) A huge splenorenal shunt (arrow) drained into the inferior vena cava without entering the hepatic hilum. (b) Retrograde flow in the dilated collateral vein (arrow) was observed.</table>

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Figure 1: Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Renoportal Anastomosis for a Patient with Congenital Absence of the Portal Vein 