A 7-month-old girl with a suspected air embolism complication during a living-donor liver transplantation procedure: a case report
Dan Huang,
Liqun Yang,
Weifeng Yu
et al.
Abstract:BackgroundPediatric liver transplantation is an important modality for treating biliary atresia. The overall survival rate of pediatric liver transplantation has significantly improved. The incidence of perioperative cardiac events was evaluated, and risk factors were also investigated in adult patients undergoing liver transplantation in previous studies. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of a cardiac event during a pediatric living-donor liver transplantation.Case summaryOur report describ… Show more
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