Interventional radiology procedures in adult patients who underwent liver transplantation

World J Gastroenterol. 2009 Feb 14;15(6):684-93. doi: 10.3748/wjg.15.684.

Abstract

Interventional radiology has acquired a key role in every liver transplantation (LT) program by treating the majority of vascular and non-vascular post-transplant complications, improving graft and patient survival and avoiding, in the majority of cases, surgical revision and/or re-transplantation. The aim of this paper is to review indications, technical consideration, results achievable and potential complications of interventional radiology procedures after deceased donor LT and living related adult LT.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Biopsy
  • Cadaver
  • Family
  • Graft Survival
  • Hepatic Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Liver Transplantation* / mortality
  • Liver Transplantation* / pathology
  • Liver Transplantation* / physiology
  • Living Donors
  • Portal Vein / pathology
  • Postoperative Complications / classification
  • Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging*
  • Radiography
  • Radiology, Interventional*
  • Survival Rate
  • Tissue Donors
  • Vascular Diseases / diagnostic imaging