Cardiothoracic & vascular anesthesia
Transesophageal Echocardiography: A Viable Alternative to Intraoperative Doppler Flow Assessment of the Portal Vein in Living Donor Liver Transplantation
Main finding · Agreement of PVV between TEE and IODResult — go to the resultCorrelation (r) 0.835Authors' conclusion
TEE demonstrates good agreement with IOD for intraoperative PVV measurement in LDLT and offers the advantage of continuous, real-time monitoring (if necessary) without interrupting surgery or breaching sterility.
Study context
- Population
- Adult living donor liver transplantation recipients with intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), single tertiary university hospital, April 2023–March 2024
- Participants
- 25 participants
- Exposure
- TEE vs intraoperative Doppler ultrasound for portal vein velocity
- Outcome
- Agreement between PVV measured by TEE and by IOD (Bland-Altman mean bias, limits of agreement, percentage error)
- Follow-up
- After portal vein anastomosis and graft reperfusion
Methodological detailsretrospective, observational, pilot, single-centre
- Retrospective
- Observational
- Pilot
- Single-centre
Main finding
Agreement of PVV between TEE and IOD
Correlation (r)
0.835
P < 0.001
As reported in the abstract
Observational data: associations, not effects.
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Original publication
Transesophageal Echocardiography: A Viable Alternative to Intraoperative Doppler Flow Assessment of the Portal Vein in Living Donor Liver Transplantation. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. Published 4 February 2026. doi:10.
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