Should temporary extracorporeal continuous portal diversion replace meso/porta-caval shunts in “small-for-size” syndrome in porcine hepatectomy?

Figure 1 Schematic drawing of porta-caval diversion in the pig following hepatectomy. This system comprises a whole-blood circulation loop, conversion pump and hemofilter. In this system, blood flows directly from the pig though the portal vein and is returned to the pig via the jugular vein.