Use of CT cholangiography to evaluate the biliary tract after liver transplantation: initial experience.
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.
Miller
Gregg A
GA
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA.
Yeh
Benjamin M
BM
Breiman
Richard S
RS
Roberts
John P
JP
Qayyum
Aliya
A
Coakley
Fergus V
FV
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