Successful Treatment with a Covered Stent and 6-Year Follow-Up of Biliary Complication After Liver Transplantation
- Semmelweis University, Department of Transplantation and Surgery (Hungary)
The role of covered stent in the management of biliary complications is not yet defined in liver transplant recipients. This Case Report presents a patient with anastomotic stricture and leakage with biloma treated with a covered stent 32 months following liver transplantation. Signs of in-stent restenosis developed 52 months following covered stent placement, which was resolved by balloon dilation. There were no complications during the interventions. The latest follow-up, at 69 months following primary and 19 months following secondary percutaneous intervention, shows a patent covered stent without any clinical or morphological sign of further restenosis. The clinical success with long-term follow-up data suggests that covered stent implantation can be a rational, minimally invasive option for simultaneous treatment of bile duct stenosis and bile leak following liver transplantation in selected cases.
- OSTI ID:
- 21429047
- Journal Information:
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Vol. 33, Issue 2; Conference: CIRSE 2010: Congress of th Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe, Valencia (Spain), 2-6 Oct 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9558-y; Copyright (c) 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC and the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE); ISSN 0174-1551
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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