Co-relation between MELD scoring system prior living donor liver transplantation and occurrence of Post-transplant biliary complications

Abstract

The current study was designed to study the relation between MELD scoring system prior living donor liver transplantation and occurrence of Post-transplant biliary complications. A combined retrospective and prospective cohort study was carried out. We retrospectively analyzed the available database of all patients that underwent LDLT, at Ain Shams Center of Organ Transplantation (ASCOT), during the period from January 2013 till may 2019, and suffered from post-operative biliary complications during the first 3 months Post-operative, and correlated it with their MELD score before the operation. To do so, we studied 50 patients that are aged more than or equal 18 years old, any gender, that underwent living donor liver transplantation. We excluded patients with cholestatic liver disease and patients that underwent preoperative biliary intervention. All patients were subjected to complete history taking and thorough clinical examination, full laboratory workup, full radiological workup, post-operative cholangiography and Endoscopic retrograde colangio-pancreatography if needed.