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. 2010 Apr;147(4):581-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.07.007. Epub 2009 Sep 20.

Gastric volvulus as a complication in the recipients after adult living donor liver transplantation

Yasumasa Shirouzu  1 , Koichi Sakurai, Katsuhiro Asonuma, Yukihiro Inomata
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Gastric volvulus as a complication in the recipients after adult living donor liver transplantation

Yasumasa Shirouzu et al. Surgery. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

Background: We report 4 adult cases of mesenteroaxial gastric volvulus after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Results: All 4 recipients were female with a median age of 31 years (range, 21-69). All had undergone right lobe LDLT. Gastric volvulus developed on postoperative days (POD) 4-30, and all were successfully treated with an endoscopic correction procedure. Two of 4 needed a repeated correction procedure and 1 needed a surgical revision for the recurrent volvulus.

Conclusion: Although this type of the complication is unusual, earlier post-transplant endoscopic intervention is useful to reverse the pyloroantral obstruction. These cases let us recognize that gastric volvulus is one of the complications after right lobe LDLT.

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