title: Use of CT cholangiography to evaluate the biliary tract after liver transplantation: initial experience.
abstract: Evaluation of the biliary tract after liver transplantation, particularly when a Roux-en-Y hepatojejunostomy precludes endoscopic retrograde cholangiography, may be challenging. We present five cases of suspected biliary obstruction after liver transplantation in which multidetector-row computed tomography (CT) cholangiography was used. In conclusion, it was determined that multidetector-row CT cholangiography may be a useful modality for demonstrating patent biliary-enteric anastomoses and excluding flow-limiting biliary anastomotic strictures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA.
authors.forename: Gregg A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Benjamin M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Breiman
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: Aliya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Qayyum
authors.forename: Fergus V
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Coakley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y; D001659:Biliary Tract / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002758:Cholangiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007583:Jejunum / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods