[Ischemic hepatitis following liver biopsy in a patient with transplanted liver]

Rev Esp Enferm Dig. 1995 Oct;87(10):739-42.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

We report a case of ischemic hepatitis following a percutaneous liver biopsy in a 51 year old female patient, who had had an orthotopic liver transplant 6 months before. The angiographic study demonstrated a marked stenosis in the hepatic artery at the anastomosis site and a small arterioportal fistula. We suggest that the percutaneous liver biopsy was partially responsible for the ischemic hepatitis, due to the development of a small arterioportal fistula in a previously damaged vascular area with hepatic artery stenosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anastomosis, Surgical
  • Angiography
  • Arteriovenous Fistula / etiology
  • Biopsy / adverse effects*
  • Constriction, Pathologic
  • Female
  • Hepatic Artery / diagnostic imaging
  • Hepatic Artery / pathology*
  • Hepatic Artery / surgery
  • Hepatitis / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Ischemia / etiology*
  • Liver / blood supply*
  • Liver / pathology
  • Liver Transplantation*
  • Middle Aged
  • Portal Vein
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed