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the following are the technical steps of a whole organ liver transplant to begin the procedure we need to remove the diseased native liver to do so we divide the blood supply and the bile duct we first divide the right and left branch of the hepatic artery the common hepatic and cystic ducts are divided the portal vein is divided a clamp is applied to the inferior vena cava or IBC below the liver another clamp is applied to the IVC above the lips the hepatic veins are divided the IBC is divided the IBC is divided below the liver the diseased liver is removed [Music] in preparation for the vascularization of the to be transplanted liver the openings of the hepatic veins and the vena cava are made into a common channel this maximizes the outflow of the to be transplanted liver blood flow we also create a common opening for the hepatic artery a whole organ transplant is when the entire liver from a deceased donor is used for transplantation we begin by connecting the top of the donor IVC