Endoscopic management of biliary stricture after right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation with biliary anastomosis.

摘要

We have read with interest the paper by Zoepf et al in which they reported that 12 (30%) of 40 patients who underwent right-lobe living-donor liver transplantation (RL-LDLT) with duct-to-duct anastomosis developed biliary stricture, and that 7 (58.3%) of the 12 strictures were tteated with endoscopic stent-ing. The frequency of stricture and the endoscopic rescue rate are borh comparable to our recenr report.2