Imaging Complications in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation with Doppler Ultrasound: A Pictorial Review
Su’aidi S.U. Division of Radiological Sciences, Singapore General Hospital.
Liver transplantation is the main treatment for end-stage liver disease. Operator awareness of ultrasound features of post- transplantation complications is vital to graft survival. Clinical presentations and laboratory findings of graft complications are often non-specific, heralding the use of ultrasound as the first-line imaging modality in the serial monitoring of these liver allografts. This pictorial review aims to illustrate the normal post-transplantation imaging findings and demonstrate some post-transplantation complications along with their imaging characteristics.