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Table 2 Data related to HA dissection

From: Asymptomatic hepatic artery dissection early after living-donor liver transplantation with simultaneous splenectomy: two case reports

 

Case 1

Case 2

Diagnosis date

POD 27 (POD 8)

POD 8

Range of dissection

Celiac trunk, CHA, LGA

Celiac trunk, CHA, LGA, SMA, IMA

Symptom

None

None

Diagnosis examination

Contrast-enhanced CT

Contrast-enhanced CT

Weakness of HA flow (date)

Yes (POD 13)

Yes (POD 6)

Flow of intrahepatic artery

Detective

Detective

Comorbidity

Portal thrombosis

Tension headache

 

Hypertension

 
 

Hyperglycemia

 

Histopathology of hepatic artery

Mild intimal dissection

Wall thickening, no dissection

Treatment

Coil embolization

Conservative therapy (antiplatelet agent)

Biliary complication

None

None

Follow up period, status

10 months, survival

62 months, survival

  1. HA hepatic artery, POD postoperative day, CHA common hepatic artery, LGA left gastric artery, SMA superior mesenteric artery, IMA inferior mesenteric artery, CT computed tomography