Portal vein stenosis in children with segmental liver transplants: treatment with percutaneous transhepatic venoplasty.

Abstract

Percutaneous transhepatic portal venoplasty of portal vein stenosis in children with living, related liver transplant donors has excellent early results. In patients with this complication, the procedure has become the initial choice in our hospital, eliminating the need for surgical revision, portacaval shunting, or retransplantation.