Evaluation of Biliary Secretory Immunoglobulin-A in Recipients of Living-Donor Liver Transplantation

Kentaro Yamagiwa^1*, Yusuke Iizawa¹, Motoyuki Kobayashi¹, Toru Shinkai¹, Takashi Hamada², Shugo Mizuno², Masanobu Usui², Hiroyuki Sakurai², Masami Tabata², Shuji Isaji², Shintaro Yagi³, Taku Iida³, Tomohide Hori³, Koji Fujii⁴ and Hajime Yokoi⁵

¹Department of Surgery, Mie Prefectural Shima Hospital, Japan

²Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Transplant Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

³Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan

⁴Department of Surgery, Yamada Red Cross Hospital, Japan

⁵Department of Surgery, Mie Chuo Medical Center, Japan