Table 5.
Reasons of vascular complications after liver transplantation
| Arterial system | |
| Reperfusion damage | (n = 2) |
| Thrombosis of the celiac trunk | (n = 1) |
| Thrombosis of the hepatic artery1 | (n = 1) |
| Dissection of the common hepatic artery | (n = 1) |
| Unknown | (n = 1) |
| Portal system | |
| Over average length of the portal anastomosis | (n = 3) |
| Intraoperative thrombectomy2 | (n = 2) |
| Intraoperative thrombectomy of malign thrombus3 | (n = 1) |
| Leakage of the biliary anastomosis and consequently | (n = 1) |
| Systemic infection leading to portal thrombosis |
1
The patient suffered from fulminant acute hepatitis A with thrombosis of the arterial and portal vascular system at the time of OLT.
2
The patients had Budd-Chiari syndrome as an underlying liver disease.
3
In this particular case, infiltration of a tumor thrombus in the portal venous trunk was observed which led to portal vein stenosis after OLT.