Application of liver hanging maneuver in hepatectomy / 中华消化外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Liver hanging maneuver(LHM)was first performed to assist right hepateetomy by Jacques Belghiti in 2001.During the procedure of hepatectomy,the liver is lifted by a tape which passes between the anterior Surface of the inferior vena cava and the liver.LHM provides effective vascular control and makes the anterior approach safer and easier.As one of the most important innovations in the field of liver resection,LHM has some definite advantages over the classical approach,including less hemorrhage,less tumoral manipulation and rupture,better hemodynamic stability,reduced ischemic damage of the liver remnant and better survival for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.Moreover,LHM can serve as a guide to the correct analomical transection plane,and help to improve the exposure of the deep parenchymal plane.LHM developed rapidly in the past few years and it has been widely adopted not only in the treatment of liver cancer,but also in living donor liver transplanration,orthotopic liver transplantation and the treatment of benign liver diseases.Furthermore,many surgeons utilize LHM to facilitate various anatomical liver resections.Although the concept of LHM is widely accepted,its limits and contraindications still need to be investigated in the future.