Bowel Complications Seen on CT After Pancreas Transplantation with Enteric Drainage

AJR 2006; 187:1288-1295.

Lall CG, Sandrasegaran K, Maglinte DT, Fridell JA.

OBJECTIVE: Bowel-related complications from pancreas transplantation account for much of the postsurgical morbidity. In a review of 98 pancreas transplant recipients, we found 19 (19.4%) with such complications.

CONCLUSION: The most common problems were small-bowel obstruction and anastomotic leaks. Adhesions and internal hernias accounted for most postoperative bowel obstructions.