Background: Biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) are a significant cause of post-transplant morbidity. Endoscopic therapy is usually the first choice of treatment though surgical treatment may provide better biliary drainage.
Methods: We report a case of LDLT performed in a child for acute liver failure who developed an anastomotic biliary stricture with biliary cast formation. We performed a Roux en Y hepaticojejunostomy to treat the stricture.
Results: Allograft function improved after surgery with no further episodes of cholangitis. Two months after the surgery, the child passed a large biliary cast in the stools. This reiterates the advantage of wide biliary drainage provided through surgical therapy.
Conclusions: Surgery for biliary strictures following LDLT may provide superior long term biliary drainage- especially when biliary casts are present.
Keywords: BCS; LDLT; hepaticojejunostomy.
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