AJR 2003; 181:1139-1144.
Unsinn KM, Freund MC, Ellemunter H, Ladurner R, Koenigsrainer A, Gassner I, Jaschke WR.
Liver transplantation has emerged as an effective treatment for liver failure for a variety of diseases in pediatric patients. Transplantation procedures performed in children include whole cadaveric pediatric organ grafts as well as segmental grafts after splitting an adult cadaveric liver or after splitting an adult living related donor liver using segments II and III or segments II, III, and IV [1, 2].
Graft survival depends on the immediate diagnosis of and therapy for specific graft-related complications [3, 4], among other factors. Complications of the anastomoses are particularly common, mainly stenosis or thrombosis of the common hepatic artery, portal vein, or hepatic veins as well as stenosis or leakage of the bile duct with cholesta-sis, cholangitis, biliary stones, and biloma [5-8].