Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage in patients with cholestasis following liver transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Biliary strictures are among the most common complications following liver transplantation (LT). If endoscopic retrograde cholangiography fails, percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) may serve as an alternative approach. Description of clinical important short- and long-term outcomes as well as outcome prediction following PTBD after LT are scarce.

Methods

We analyzed outcomes of 56 liver-transplanted adults with biliary complications receiving a PTBD. We described the safety and longitudinal laboratory changes. We analyzed as endpoints, incidence of biliary complications, need for surgical biliary revision/re-LT and overall-survival at 12- and 60-months. We used simple comparison tests accordingly and performed competing risk analysis and multivariate co

SUBMITTER: Pape T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11947054 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature