Posttransplant Complex Inferior Venacava Balloon Dilatation After Hepatic Vein Stenting
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit (India)
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (India)
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Department of Liver Transplant (India)
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Department of Cardiology (India)
Orthotopic and living related liver transplantation is an established mode of treatment of end-stage liver disease. One of the major causes of postoperative complications is vascular anastomotic stenosis. One such set of such complications relates to hepatic vein, inferior vena cava (IVC), or portal vein stenosis, with a reported incidence of 1-3%. The incidence of vascular complications is reported to be higher in living donor versus cadaveric liver transplants. We encountered a patient with hepatic venous outflow tract obstruction, where the hepatic vein had been previously stented, but the patient continued to have symptoms due to additional IVC obstruction. The patient required double-balloon dilatation of the IVC simultaneously from the internal jugular vein and IVC.
- OSTI ID:
- 21429071
- Journal Information:
- Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Vol. 33, Issue 1; Conference: BSIR (British Society of Interventional Radiology) 2009 annual meeting, Brighton (United Kingdom), 4-6 Nov 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9633-4; 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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