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Hepaticojejunostomy in Orthotopic Liver Transplant: A Retrospective Case Control Study.

The reported biliary morbidity rate for deceased donor full-size orthotopic liver transplantation is up to 30%. The technique used may be influenced by multiple factors, and in some situations, biliary reconstruction must be carried out through Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. The aim of our study was to determine the results of the orthotopic liver transplantation according to the technique used in the biliary reconstruction. A retrospective study was performed with the first 1000 orthotopic liver transplants (951 patients) carried out consecutively (1996-2013) with follow-up until 2017. A matched case-control study was designed in 1:3 ratio (47/136) to compare the reconstruction by hepaticojejunostomy vs the end-to-end coledoco-coledocostomy. Hepaticojejunostomy was associated with patients with cholestatic (44.7% vs 3.7%) and ischemic disease (14.9% vs 0%; P < .001) and previous transplant (29.8% vs 1.5%; P = .003). The mean biliary duct reconstruction, surgery, and cold ischemia times were also higher. Vascular complications were significantly more frequent in the hepaticojejunostomy group (36.1% vs 10.4%; P < .001), mainly because of differences in early arterial complications. Nevertheless, there were no differences in the total biliary complication (21.2% vs 16.9%; P = .5). The biliary leakage rate and the biliary stricture rate were also similar. Hepaticojejunostomy in orthotopic liver transplantation presented longer biliary reconstruction, surgery, and cold ischemia times when compared with end-to-end coledoco-coledocostomy. In addition, it was followed by a higher incidence of arterial complications but had similar biliary complication rate and graft survival. Differences could be explained by the fact that hepaticojejunostomy was used more often in cholestatic or ischemic diseases and in retransplant procedures.

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