Interventional radiology for post-transplant anastomotic complications

Abstract

The effectiveness of percutaneous interventional radiology for anastomotic stricture in hepatic vein, portal vein, and biliary tract after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is described. As a number of patients with LDLT are infants < 10-year-old in the study, the first treatment option was balloon dilatation, not primary stenting. However, stent placement was performed in patients with recurrent, repeated stenosis.

Keywords

Interventional radiology / living donor liver transplantation / balloon dilatation / stent placement

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