Interventional Radiological Treatment of Paediatric Liver Transplantation Complications. 2020

Jan H Peregrin, and Jozef Kováč, and Martin Prchlík, and Pavel Heinige, and Radana Kotanová, and Jiří Froňek, and Róbert Novotný, and Matěj Kočík, and Libor Janoušek
Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Vídeňská 1958/9, 14021, Prague 4, Czech Republic. jan.peregrin@ikem.cz.

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of percutaneous techniques in managing paediatric liver transplantation complications. METHODS We carried out 105 paediatric cadaveric donor liver transplantations at our centre from 2001 to 2018. Percutaneous techniques were used to treat 25 cases involving transplantation complications in 23 patients. Biliary complications were treated in 14 cases (13.3%): 10 patients had bile duct obstruction, and 4 had biliary leaks. Vascular complications were treated in 11 cases (10.5%): 5 hepatic artery (HA) stenoses/occlusions, 2 inferior vena cava (IVC) stenoses, and 1 portal vein (PV) stenosis. Other interventions involved embolisation of the superior mesenteric artery branch to manage gastrointestinal bleeding in 2 patients and embolisation of an arteriobiliary fistula in 1 patient. RESULTS Biliary: We carried out external-internal drainage and balloon dilatation of stenoses in 12 cases. The external-internal drainage catheter was removed after 6-8 weeks in 7 patients, with the remaining 5 patients with persisting stenosis assigned for retransplantation. We failed to cross anastomotic occlusions in 2 patients before completing the procedures using external drainage; both individuals subsequently underwent retransplantation. Vascular: We performed PTA/stenting of HA stenoses/occlusions in 4 out of 5 patients. After the procedure, all 4 patients showed liver function normalisation. All 3 cases of embolisation were technically and clinically successful. Both IVC and PV stenoses treated with dilatation/stenting were also successful. CONCLUSIONS Percutaneous techniques used to treat biliary and vascular complications after liver transplantation in paediatric patients are safe and efficient.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007223 Infant A child between 1 and 23 months of age. Infants
D008297 Male Males
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D002648 Child A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL. Children
D002675 Child, Preschool A child between the ages of 2 and 5. Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D002779 Cholestasis Impairment of bile flow due to obstruction in small bile ducts (INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS) or obstruction in large bile ducts (EXTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS). Bile Duct Obstruction,Biliary Stasis,Bile Duct Obstructions,Biliary Stases,Cholestases,Duct Obstruction, Bile,Duct Obstructions, Bile,Obstruction, Bile Duct,Obstructions, Bile Duct,Stases, Biliary,Stasis, Biliary
D004322 Drainage The removal of fluids or discharges from the body, such as from a wound, sore, or cavity.
D004621 Embolization, Therapeutic A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage. Embolotherapy,Therapeutic Embolization,Embolizations, Therapeutic,Embolotherapies,Therapeutic Embolizations
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man

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