Clinical Trial: Comparing Portal Vein Assessment by Intraoperative Doppler and Transesophageal Echocardiography
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Chronic Liver Disease
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Comparing Transesophageal Echocardiography and Trans Abdominal Doppler for Portal Vein Assessment in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Brief Summary:
Liver transplantation is usually associated with hemodynamic instability.TEE allows for a real time monitoring of cardiac structures and has become a standard of care for liver transplant patients.Society of cardiovascular anaesthesia and American society of anaesthesiologists recommends use of TEE in non-cardiac surgery patients with hemodynamic instability.Also, society for advancement of transplant anaesthesia (SATA) has suggested that TEE usage in cases of liver transplant is safe, effective and improves…
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