A 32-year-old woman suffered brain death due to a motor vehicle accident. Her family expressed their wishes to donate her organs. After the complete transplantation protocol was achieved, the patient was taken to the operating room for procuration, where she donated her liver, both kidneys, and both corneas.
Before introducing the donor liver into the receptor, the organ was carefully dissected, enabling a more detailed anatomy of its vessels and the organ itself (figs. 1 and 2).
At dissection, the patient presented with a type 2 vascular anatomy, according to Couinaud's nomenclature. This variation has been reported in previous studies to be present in up to 10% of the population and it is defined as a left hepatic artery that arises from the left gastric artery instead of originating from the proper hepatic artery (fig. 3).
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Please cite this article as: Ortiz de Elguea-Lizárraga JI, del Real-Romo ZJ, Paláu-Dávila L, Flores-Villalba E. Variante anatómica de la arteria hepática izquierda. Revista de Gastroenterología de México. 2015;80:214–216.
