Graft and patient survival following angioplasty for post-transplant portal vein stenosis in children under 7 years: a matched case–control study
Simone Hammer, Anna Dorn, Michael Christian Doppler, Florian Zeman, Christian Stroszczynski, Dirk Grothues, Birgit Knoppke, Stefan M. Brunner, Hans Jürgen Schlitt, Wibke Uller · 2025
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Description
Simone Hammer and nine co-authors study a narrowing vein problem in young liver transplant patients, in a 2025 paper. After transplant, the portal vein that feeds the new liver can narrow, threatening the graft. Doctors can stretch it open with a balloon through the skin, but long-term results in small children needed proof.
The study compared 31 children under seven treated with the balloon against 62 matched children without narrowing, plus 9 with a fully blocked vein. Seven-year graft survival was about ninety-three percent in the treated group and eighty-eight percent in controls, a gap too small to call real. The blocked-vein group fared worse. Liver function, pressure signs, and open-vein rates were also tracked. The results support balloon treatment as a durable fix.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Simone Hammer, Anna Dorn, Michael Christian Doppler, Florian Zeman, Christian Stroszczynski, Dirk Grothues, Birgit Knoppke, Stefan M. Brunner, Hans Jürgen Schlitt, Wibke Uller |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |