Immediate extubation after liver transplantation for acute hepatic exacerbation in patient with chronic liver failure: A case report

  • Tran Duc Hung 108 Military Central Hospital
  • Cong Quyet Thang Bệnh viện Hữu nghị Việt Xô
  • Tong Xuan Hung 108 Military Central Hospital
  • Nguyen Minh Ly 108 Military Central Hospital

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Keywords

Liver transplantation, extubation, acute liver failure

Abstract

Liver transplantation is the last therapy for end-stage liver disease and acute liver failure patients. Anesthesia for liver transplantation has many challenges: Severe coagulopathy, hemodynamic and acid-base disorder, hemorrhage, and need to massive blood component transfusion, prolong surgery time, especially in acute liver failure with high MELD score patients. Immediate post-operative extubation for liver recipients had been proven to improve graff perfusion, decrease respiratory complications, intensive care unit day, treatment cost. We present a liver recipient with a diagnosis of acute liver failure, MELD score 40, cirrhosis, hepatitis B, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus. The preoperative condition was severe coagulopathy, plasma exchange four times. We chose balance anesthesia, using desfuran follow BIS’s target 40 - 60, rocuronium follow TOF 0, applied lung-protective ventilation post intubated, hemodynamic and transfusion under the direction of Volumview system, maintain thermic 36 - 37oC. Anesthesia time was 450 minutes, at the end of surgery the patient was full conscious, met extubation criterias, and was extubated in 15 minutes. Post-anesthesia the patient was transfered to intensive care unit. The patient was no complications and discharged to home in 21 days.

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