Table 4.

Postoperative complications in recipients of right and left lobe split-liver transplants (n = 18)

	Vascular Cx	Vascular intervention	Biliary Cx	Biliary intervention	Day and cause of graft failure
Right lobe recipients
1-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
2-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
3-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
4-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
5-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
6-RL	No	None	No	None	346 days; cause of death unknown
7-RL	No	None	Leak and stricture	GI-ERCP stent and angioplasty	N/A
8-RL	No	None	No	None	44 days; death of cardiopulmonary cause
9-RL	No	None	No	None	N/A
Left lobe recipients
1-LL	No	None	No	None	4255 days; cause of death unknown
2-LL	No	None	No	None	N/A
3-LL	No	None	Leak	IR: stent; surgical revision (1 month)b	N/A
4-LL	No	None	Leak	IR: drain; surgical revision (0 months)b	93 days; death of sepsis
5-LL	Early HAT (0 months)a	IR: thrombectomy, angioplasty, tPA	Stricture	IR: stent and drain	N/A
6-LL	No	None	No	None	N/A
7-LL	No	None	Stricture	IR: stent; surgical revision (5 months)b	N/A
8-LL	No	None	Leak	IR: drain	20 days; death of sepsis
9-LL	Late HAT (2 months)a	Retransplantation	Leak	IR: drain; surgical revision (2 months)b	80 days; late HAT

^aTiming of vascular complication.

^bTiming of biliary surgical revision.

Cx, complication; ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; GI, gastrointestinal; HAT, hepatic artery thrombosis; IR, interventional radiology; N/A, not applicable; tPA, tissue plasminogen activator.