Role of biliary complications in chronic graft rejection after living donor liver transplantation

Aiman Obed; Abdalla Bashir; Anwar Jarrad; Laszlo Fuzesi

doi:10.4254/wjh.v14.i5.1050

Role of biliary complications in chronic graft rejection after living donor liver transplantation

World J Hepatol. 2022 May 27;14(5):1050-1052. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v14.i5.1050.

Authors

Aiman Obed¹, Abdalla Bashir², Anwar Jarrad³, Laszlo Fuzesi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Unit, Jordan Hospital, Amman 52112, Jordan. aimanobed@hotmail.com.
² Department of General Surgery, Jordan Hospital, Amman 52112, Jordan.
³ Department of Hepatology, Jordan Hospital, Amman 52112, Jordan.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Augsburg, Augsburg 86156, Germany.

Abstract

Postoperative biliary complications remain a substantial challenge after living donor liver transplantation, especially due to its heterogeneous clinical presentation.

Keywords: Biliary complications; Cholangiopathy; Chronic graft rejection; Graft survival; Living donor liver transplantation.