Abstract
Aim: Liver transplantation is the only treatment for end-stage liver disease. Biliary tract pathologies that develop after liver transplantation are the most common causes of morbidity. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the outcomes of surgical treatment for biliary strictures. Patients and Methods: In this study, only surgical treatment applied biliary strictures were evaluated. Between April 2014 and April 2018 at Medipol University Medical Faculty Hospital Organ Transplantation Department, Istanbul, Turkey, 129 patients with living donor liver transplantation were studied retrospectively. Results: Seven patients (5.4%) were done surgical treatment, because all percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) has failed. In these patients, no exhibited postoperative morbidity, mortality and recurrence of biliary strictures in follow up 35 months. Conclusions: Surgical treatment appears to be successful in when PTBD have failed biliary stricture patients, after liver transplantation.
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