Role of MDCT in the detection of early abdominal complications after orthotopic liver transplantation

Celiac trunk and common hepatic artery variations in children: an analysis with CT angiography

“…Although digital subtraction angiography is regarded as the gold standard imaging method in the evaluation of abdominal vascular structures, MDCT angiography is cheaper, easily accessible, safer and particularly noninvasive when compared to digital subtraction angiography. MDCT angiography has become a widely used imaging method which provides highly accurate results and has gained acceptance in the identification of vascular anatomy [2,24]. Magnetic resonance angiography is another useful method used to define the anatomy of the abdominal vascular structure in children.…”

Viability Criteria during Liver Ex-Situ Normothermic and Hypothermic Perfusion

“…Bile storage and analysis are routinely performed during NMP with the aim to find markers predictive of IC or biliary complications, which remain the Achille’s heel of LT [ 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 ]. Both cholangiocellular and hepatocellular criteria are relevant in the prediction of post-LT biliary complications.…”

Imaging and Intervention of Biliary Leaks and Bilomas

“…All patients were evaluated within 90 days of transplantation, and the results found that MDCT readily detected vascular, biliary, and parenchymal abnormalities with up to 97% sensitivity. 81 Similarly, Meng et al found MDCT to be 100% specific and accurate in detecting anastomotic biliary leak and bilomas in postoperative liver transplant patients. 88 MDCT also plays a critical role in evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma in children and adults.…”

“…Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) plays a vital role is assessing the bile ducts and surgical, traumatic, or intervention-related biliary complications. 12,[81][82][83][84][85][86] In the setting of trauma, bile duct injuries may be subtle and not readily detected or may manifest several days to weeks after initial injury. Early manifestations of biliary leakage may be nonspecific findings of trace ascites.…”