Abstract

Background: Hepatic artery thrombosis (HAT) complicates 0.2-0.6% of Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) with 50-100% mortality. All reported cases occurred in first post-operative week in cases with difficult dissection and injury to hepatic artery. We report first two cases of HAT more than 10 days after surgery which were not associated with operative trauma to hepatic artery ,from a high-volume centre performing 125 to 150 PD a year.

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