Diagnostic and interventional radiology in liver transplantation.

The Role of Interventional Radiology in Treating Complications following Liver Transplantation

Liver transplantation (LT) is used to treat both adult and pediatric patients with end-stage liver disease or acute liver failure. It has become more prevalent as both the surgical technique and postoperative care have improved resulting in a reduced morbidity and mortality. As a result, there are more patients surviving longer after liver transplantation. Despite this, there remain serious com...

Liver Remnant Regeneration in Donors After Living Donor Liver Transplantation: Long-Term Follow-Up Using CT and MR Imaging Regeneration des verbliebenen Lebergewebes bei Spendern nach Leberlebendspende: Langzeitverlaufskontrollen mittels CT und MRT

Affiliations 1 Diagnostic, Interventional, and Pediatric Radiology, INSELSPITAL – Bern University Hospital, Bern 2 Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology, Sonography and Nuclearmedicine, Merciful Brethren Hospital, Trier 3 Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 4 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery und Transplant Surgery, University Medica...

Assessment of patient entrance skin dose (ESD) and effective dose (ED) for the most common interventional radiological exams at Mazandaran hospital

Introduction:   Nowadays we are witnessing an exponential application of interventional radiology techniques in various communities as well as Iran. Radiological technique is regarded as  the  2nd  contributing  factor in  increasing  the  amount  of  public  doses  in various societies. So that related radiation protection organization has recommended measuring patient d...

Assessment of patients’ entrance skin and effective dose in a mathematical human phantom for the most common interventional radiological examinations

Introduction: Nowadays, we are witnessing an exponential use of interventional radiology techniques in different communities. After CT, interventional techniques are the second factor of increasing patients’ doses in different societies. Measuring patient doses from aforementioned methods has been recommended by many radiation protection professional organizations such as ICRP...

Role of interventional radiology in the treatment of complications following liver transplantations: Results of our experience