Postreperfusion syndrome during living liver transplants remains a serious concern for transplant anesthesiologists. This syndrome is responsible for decreases in systemic blood pressure, systemic vascular resistance, and cardiac output and can even lead to cardiac arrest. Delayed graft function and primary graft nonfunction are closely related to postreperfusion syndrome (Therefore, attenuating the syndrome during anesthesia is of great importance.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
60
During the anhepatic phase, the patients in the mannitol group (30) will receive 1 g/kg
the same amount of 0.9% normal saline
Medicine Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
mean arterial blood pressure
postreperfusion mean blood pressure
Time frame: one hour after reperfusion
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