Perioperative management of hemostasis for surgery of benign hepatic adenomas in patients with glycogen storage disease type Ia

Abstract

The development of hepato cellular adenomas in the liver of patients with glycogen storage disease type I is a well-known complication of the disease. Surgical procedures and perioperative managements described so far have reported persistent and important morbidity. We report here a series of six patients (three males and three females) who under went hepatic resection, and we propose a new hemostatic management protocol comprising glucose infusion, corticosteroids, desmopressin, and antifibrinolytic drugs, used to prevent efficaciously hepatic hemorrhage due to glycogen storage disease (GSD) platelet dysfunction.