TY - JOUR
T1 - Vascular and nonvascular complications of liver transplants
T2 - Sonographic evaluation and correlation with other imaging modalities and findings at surgery and pathology
AU - Friedewald, Sarah M.
AU - Molmenti, Ernesto P.
AU - DeJong, M. Robert
AU - Hamper, Ulrike M.
PY - 2003/6
Y1 - 2003/6
N2 - Liver transplantation is performed in adults and children to treat patients with irreversible liver damage when medical or other surgical treatment has failed. The most common indications for transplantation are cirrhosis secondary to fulminant acute hepatitis or chronic active hepatitis, sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome, inborn errors of metabolism, and unresectable but local hepatocellular carcinoma. This article reviews the sonographic findings in the preoperative evaluation of liver transplant recipients, briefly describes the surgical technique, and demonstrates normal postoperative findings in liver transplant recipients as well as complications associated with liver transplantation.
AB - Liver transplantation is performed in adults and children to treat patients with irreversible liver damage when medical or other surgical treatment has failed. The most common indications for transplantation are cirrhosis secondary to fulminant acute hepatitis or chronic active hepatitis, sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, Budd-Chiari syndrome, inborn errors of metabolism, and unresectable but local hepatocellular carcinoma. This article reviews the sonographic findings in the preoperative evaluation of liver transplant recipients, briefly describes the surgical technique, and demonstrates normal postoperative findings in liver transplant recipients as well as complications associated with liver transplantation.
KW - Color Doppler imaging
KW - Complications
KW - Doppler imaging
KW - Liver transplant
KW - Sonography
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U2 - 10.1097/00013644-200306000-00003
DO - 10.1097/00013644-200306000-00003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 12973092
AN - SCOPUS:0041886410
SN - 0894-8771
VL - 19
SP - 71
EP - 85
JO - Ultrasound Quarterly
JF - Ultrasound Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -