Splenectomy is not indicated in living donor liver transplantation

Kyoji Ito, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, Akihiko Ichida, Daisuke Ito, Junichi Kaneko, Junichi Arita, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Norihiro Kokudo – 2 June 2016 – Simultaneous splenectomy (SPX) is preferentially performed in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) to modulate portal flow; increase postoperative platelet count, especially among those with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; and modulate the immunologic status in ABO‐incompatible cases. The negative effects of the procedure, however, are not well established.

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Detection of hepatitis b virus DNA in the blood of a stem cell donor after granulocyte colony‐stimulating factor treatment

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