Nutritional aspects in patient undergoing liver resection

In the past two decades, hepatic surgery has
achieved important technical breakthroughs resulting in a
drastic reduction of the onset of complications and in an
improved post-resective survival. Pre-operative nutritional
status is one of the key points for the success of a liver
resection. Modern surgical achievement such as the
development of living-related liver donation, and the possibility
to perform more laparoscopic liver resection gave
us the opportunity to extend post-operative protocol
focused on early intestinal feeding to tumor patients. The
aims of this review were to report the current status of the
knowledge regarding nutritional aspects in liver resection
patients.