Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Abdomen, Liver, Vascular, Ultrasound, Ultrasound-Colour Doppler, Ultrasound-Spectral Doppler, Education, Acute, Obstruction / Occlusion, Transplantation
Authors:
D. D. C. Khalil, L. L. D. Faria, S. M. S. D. R. Rocha, L. Suzuki
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2023/C-21078
Background
Liver transplant became the last-resort approach for the treatment of appropriately selected patients with end-stage liver disease. In the past few years, there has been a significant advance in survival rates, due to improvements in surgical techniques, organ availability, selection of appropriate living donors, amelioration in pediatric intensive care, and new immunosuppressive regimens.
The number of patients awaiting liver transplantation increased throughout the years, and although it has augmented deceased donations it is still not as abundant as needed. It was one of the reasons living-donor liver transplantation expanded in the last decades.
Postoperative complications affect around 40% of pediatric recipients. They range from minor to major events, and early diagnosis is crucial for patient and graft survival.