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

Table 3 Previous and present cases of hepatic artery dissection after LDLT

Study	Sex	Age	Primary disease	Graft type	GRWR	Splenectomy	Intimal dissection at anastomosis	Symptom	Treatment	Outcome
Iwaki et al. [6]	Female	48	Cryptogenic LC	Right lobe	0.85	Yes	None	None	Conservative	18 months, survival
Lin et al. [9]	-	-	-	Right lobe	–	–	Partially	–	Conservative	> 14 months, survival
Kim et al. [10]	Female	54	-	Left lobe	–	–	–	–	–	–
Kim et al. [10]	Male	58	-	Right lobe	–	No	–	–	None	–
Asonuma et al. [11]	Female	30	AIH	Left lobe	0.93	Yes	Partially	None	Re-anastomosis	11 months, death*
Present case 1	Male	51	HBV-LC	Right lobe	0.78	Yes	Partially	None	IVR (coiling)	6 months, survival
Present case 2	Female	58	PBC	Left lobe	0.76	Yes	Partially	None	Conservative	57 months, survival

GRWR graft weight to recipient body weight ratio, LC liver cirrhosis, AIH autoimmune hepatitis, HBV-LC hepatitis type B virus-liver cirrhosis, IVR interventional radiology, PBC primary biliary cholangitis
^*Death due to bleeding from esophageal ulcer

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