title: Liver transplantation for hepatolithiasis: Is terminal hepatolithiasis suitable for liver transplantation?
abstract: Hepatolithiasis, originally as oriental cholangiohepatitis, especially prevails in Asia, but globalization and intercontinental migration have also converted the endemic disease dynamics around the world. Characterized by its high incidence of ineffective treatment and recurrence, hepatolithiasis, always, poses a therapeutic challenge to global doctors. Although the improved surgical and non-surgical techniques have evolved over the past decade, incomplete clearance and recurrence of calculi are always so common and disease-related mortality from liver failure and concurrent cholangiocarcinoma still exists in the treatment of hepatolithiasis. In the late stage of hepatolithiasis, is it suitable for liver transplantation (LT)? Herein, we propose a comprehensive review and analysis of the LTx currently in potential use to treat hepatolithiasis. In our subjective opinion, and as is objective from the literatures so far, also given the strict indications, LT remains one of the definitive treatments for terminal hepatolithiasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou, China.
authors.forename: Li-Bo
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou, China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
authors.forename: Lv-Nan
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Yan
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020347:Lithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation
keywords: hepatolithiasis; liver transplantation; treatment