title: Biliary complications in right lobe living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: Living donor liver transplantation is an alternative to deceased donor liver transplantation in the face of insufficient deceased donor liver grafts. Unfortunately, the incidence of biliary complication after living donor liver transplantation is significantly higher than that after deceased donor liver transplantation using grafts from non-cardiac-death donations. The two most common biliary complications after living donor liver transplantation are bile leakage and biliary anastomotic stricture. Early treatment with endoscopic and interventional radiological approaches can achieve satisfactory outcomes. If treatment with these approaches fails, the salvage measure for prompt rectification will be surgical revision, which is now seldom performed. This paper also discusses risk factors in donor biliary anatomy that can affect recipients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, China. kennethchok@yahoo.com.hk.
authors.forename: Kenneth S H
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Chok
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, 102 Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Chung Mau
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lo
mesh_terms: D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000473:pathology; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D019520:Living Donors; D012307:Risk Factors
keywords: Bile leak; Biliary anastomotic stricture; Biliary reconstruction; Complications; Living donor liver transplantation