1Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and the Center for Vascular Biology Research, Department of Surgery,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 2The Transplant Institute and the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine,Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
The mouse model of partial 2/3 (66%) hepatectomy is well described in the literature, but more extended hepatectomies mimicking small-for-size syndrome after liver transplantation have seldom been used. We describe an extended 78% hepatectomy procedure in a mouse model that results in approximately 50% postoperative lethality in healthy mice.
