Role of interventional radiology in management of post-liver transplant anastomotic complications

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 2 The relation between the complication, time after transplant, and the outcome after 3-month follow-up

	Follow-up after 3 months		Test value	P value	Sig.
	Success	Failed
	No. = 22	No. = 3
Complications
Portal vein stenosis	3 (13.6%)	1 (33.3%)	0.762*	0.383	NS
Hepatic artery pseudo-aneurysm	1 (4.5%)	1 (33.3%)	2.973*	0.085	NS
Biliary stenosis	9 (40.9%)	1 (33.3%)	0.063*	0.802	NS
Biliary leakage	4 (18.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0.649*	0.420	NS
Hepatic vein stenosis	5 (22.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0.852*	0.356	NS
Hepatic artery stenosis	2 (9.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0.296*	0.586	NS
Time after transplant
Within 1 week	3 (13.6%)	1 (33.3%)	1.664*	0.645	NS
Within 1 month	12 (54.5%)	2 (66.7%)
Within 2 months	5 (22.7%)	0 (0.0%)
Within 3 months	2 (9.1%)	0 (0.0%)

P value > 0.05: non-significant; P value < 0.05: significant; P value < 0.01: highly significant
*: Chi-square test