Predicting Biliary Complications in Right Lobe Liver Transplant Recipients according to Distance between Donor's Bile Duct and Corresponding Hepatic Artery

Abstract

Right lobe liver graft recipients who have variant right biliary anatomy and a second-order bile duct 10 mm or farther from the corresponding hepatic artery are at high risk for biliary complications, possibly because of a predisposition to ischemic injury.