Post written by In Rae Cho, MD, and Sang Hyub Lee, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Liver Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Anastomotic biliary strictures (ABSs) are a major adverse event after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and often difficult to treat with standard ERCP alone. The SPYPASS-2 study evaluated …
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Bleeding at Roux-en-Y jejunojejunal anastomosis after orthotopic liver transplantation
Post written by Chaitanya Allamneni, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. A young woman with a medical history of primary sclerosing cholangitis/autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndrome diagnosed at age 2, complicated by decompensated cirrhosis, underwent orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). During OLT she underwent a standard Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. Twenty-four …
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