Ultrasonography in following up patients after serotonin injection aimed to prevent complications after liver resections

Serotonin is one of the most challenging medications intended for increasing resistance and keeping function of a liver during ischemia, occurring during liver resection procedures with hypovolemia. Purpose: Monitoring of the results of liver's resection procedures with followed serotonin injection. Material and methods: Ultrasonography in the early postoperative term was performed in 13 patients. Chronologically there were three examinations: immediately after transferring a patient into intensive care unit (basis), 60 minutes since serotonin injection, on the second day after resection. Assessment parameters:…