Use of somatostatin for complications occurring after liver transplantation.
Somatostatin can be helpful after liver transplantation in some well-defined indications. In uncontrolled digestive haemorrhage, a short course of somatostatin therapy can be of great help in controlling the acute bleeding and to avoid emergency laparotomy. Somatostatin could also be helpful in bilio-pancreato-intestinal fistula, but in this case its advantage over elective surgical treatment remains to be confirmed.
Department of Digestive Surgery, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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