Early posttransplant hepatic venous outflow obstruction: Long-term efficacy of primary stent placement

Although balloon angioplasty has been accepted as the safe and effective initial treatment to manage hepatic venous outflow abnormalities, it may induce rupture of the fresh anastomosis but also may be ineffective to eliminate various etiologies of venous outflow abnormalities in the early post-transplant period. Therefore, we performed primary stent placement in 108 patients to treat early-onset (