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12452367

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-11-27
pubmed:abstractText
We examined the prevalence of gastrointestinal bleeding in patients undergoing living-related liver transplantation (LRLT). Seventy-seven patients (37 male and 40 female) underwent LRLT at the University of Tokyo Hospital from January 1996 through December 1999. Forty-nine patients were children or adolescents and 28 patients were adults. The mean follow-up period was 21.3 +/- 12.8 months. Nine of the 77 recipients had gastrointestinal bleeding after transplantation. The incidence of posttransplant bleeding was significantly higher in adult recipients than in pediatric recipients (25% vs 4%, P < 0.05). The ratio of graft volume to standard liver volume was significantly lower in adult recipients than in pediatric recipients (41 +/- 6% vs 86 +/- 26%, P < 0.05). Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) developed after LRLT in 8 patients. Variceal bleeding subsequently occurred in all 4 adult patients with PVT but in only 1 of 4 pediatric patients. Small-for-size grafts may cause transient portal hypertension, which increases the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:author
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2386-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:articleTitle
Gastrointestinal bleeding after living-related liver transplantation.
pubmed:affiliation
Liver Transplantation Team, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.