Biliary strictures complicating liver transplantation in pediatric patients: Experience in a South American transplant center

To describe the experience of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) with biliary dilatation and drainage after pediatric liver transplantation and to determine the long-term outcome of this procedure. Methods: Retrospective study from 2001 to 2013. Follow-up after treatment was also undertaken. A survival analysis was performed in patients in whom the procedure and eventual removal of the catheter were successful. Results: In all, 196 children received liver transplants; 40 of them (20 boys and 20 girls; median age of 4 years) were treated using PTC due to biliary complications. Sixty-one PTC procedures were performed in 40 liver transplant recipients. Technically successful PTC was achieved in 87.5% of the patients. The probability of a patient not developing unfavorable outcomes 1, 5, and 10 years after treatment was 88.9%, 83.0%, and 74.1%.

• Autores: Echeverry Junga, Gabriel Jaime; Caicedo Rusca, Luis Armando; Villegas Otálora, Jorge Iván; Thomas Pérez, Laura Sofia; Botero Osorio, Verónica; Acosta, Diana; Ospina, Laura; Rodriguez-Takeuchi, Sara Yukie; Holguin Holguin, Alfonso José
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad ICESI
• Repositorio: Repositorio ICESI
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.icesi.edu.co:10906/81405
• Acceso en línea: https://nebulosa.icesi.edu.co:2615/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010669679&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&st1=Biliary+strictures+complicating+liver+transplantation+in+pediatric+patients%3A+Experience+in+a+South+American+transplant+center&st2=&sid=9; http://hdl.handle.net/10906/81405; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ctr.12877
• Palabra clave: Ciencias socio biomédicas; Fistula biliar; Trasplante de hígado; Colangiografia; Medical sciences
• License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/