Biliary strictures in hepatic transplants: prevalence and types in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis vs those with other liver diseases.

Abstract

Intrahepatic and nonanastomotic extrahepatic biliary strictures are significantly more common in patients who have liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis than in patients who receive allografts for other end-stage liver diseases. However, strictures at the choledochojejunostomy anastomosis occur with equal frequency in both groups of patients.