Liver transplantation is the gold standard treatment for patients with end-stage liver disease. Despite its outstanding success, liver transplantation still entails certain complications including ischemia-reperfusion injury. Remote ischemic preconditioning is a novel and simple therapeutic method to lessen the harmful effects of ischemia-reperfusion injury, however, the majority of remote ischemic preconditioning studies on hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury have been animal studies. Therefore, our aim was to assess the effects of remote ischemic preconditioning on postoperative liver function in living donor hepatectomy.
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Postopera The Maximal Aspartate Aminotransferase Level Within 7 Postoperative Days
Timeframe: within 7 days after operation
The Maximal Alanine Aminotransferase Level Within 7 Postoperative Days
Timeframe: within 7 days after operation