Table 1.

Data from Multiple Plastic Stents Insertion for Treatment of Anastomosis Stricture after Liver Transplantation

Study	Patients	No. of stents	Stent duration, mo	No. of ERC	F/U duration, mo	Resolution of AS, n (%)	Recurrence of AS, n (%)	Complications
Rerknimitr et al. (2002) [19]	43	2.8	15.8	3.8	56.5	43/43 (100)	0/43 (0)	Stent migration, fistula, bleeding (no. of cases not listed)
Alazmi et al. (2006) [20]	148	3	2.5	3	32	131/148 (89)	24/131 (18)	-
Pasha et al. (2007) [21]	25	2	4.65	3.5	21.5	22/25 (88)	2/22 (9)	5/105 ERC (4.8%): pancreatitis, fever, stent migration, hypoxia
Holt et al. (2007) [17]	53		11	3	18	34/53 (63)	1/34 (3)	11/53 Patients (20%): pancreatitis, minor complications (not listed)
Morelli et al. (2008) [15]	38	2.5	3.5	3.45	12	33/38 (87)	5/33 (15)	2/38 Patients (5%): cholangitis
Tabibian et al. (2010) [18]	69	2.5	15	4.2	11	65/69 (94)	2/65 (3)	4/268 ERC (1.5%): pancreatitis, bacteremia
Albert et al. (2013) [22]	47	2.5	28	4.2	36	26/47 (63)	15/41 (37)	32/198 ERC (16%): cholangitis, pancreatitis, bleeding, perforation
Poley et al. (2013) [23]	31	4	-	5	28	25/31 (80)	-	21/31 Patients (67%): cholangitis, pancreatitis, cholestasis

ERC, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography; F/U, follow-up; AS, anastomotic stricture.