Interventional radiology in living donor liver transplant

Radiology Rounds - September 2008 - Imaging for Pre-Transplant Evaluation of Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Liver transplantation, first introduced 40 years, is the recognized treatment of choice for patients suffering from end-stage liver disease, including documented fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), decompensated cirrhosis, or hepatocellular carcinoma within defined criteria. Unfortunately, the demand for liver transplantation is greater than the supply of cadaveric livers. There are approximately ...

Interventional radiology for post-transplant anastomotic complications

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...

The International Liver Transplant Society (ILTS) Living Donor Liver Transplant Recipient Guideline

Diagnostic and interventional radiology in liver transplantation.

Diagnostic and interventional radiology play major roles in the evaluation and management of liver transplant patients. This article begins with a discussion of imaging techniques used in the preoperative evaluation of transplant candidates. Surgical approaches and normal posttransplant anatomy are presented. An in-depth discussion of the radiologic evaluation of posttransplantation complicatio...

Effect of donor-specific antibodies and panel reactive antibodies in living donor liver transplant recipients

PURPOSE Preformed circulating donor-specific antibodies (DSAs) immunologically challenge vascular endothelium and the bile duct. However, the liver is an immune-tolerant organ and can avoid immunological challenges. This study was undertaken to analyze the effects of DSAs after adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 219 LDLT patients' records trea...