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Blood sample timing patterns
| Stage | Sample no. |
Average time (hr) from skin incision |
Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1 | 0 | Initial or baseline |
| 2 | 3.5 | Late in Stage I (following dissection of diseased liver) | |
| II | 3 | 5.5 | Mid- to late Stage II (an-hepatic period) |
| III | 4 | 6.4 | Early in Stage III (restoration of circulation to the new graft liver) |
| 5 | 8 | Mid-Stage III | |
| 6 | 10 | End of operation |
