Management of liver transplantation biliary stricture: Results from a tertiary hospital

Table 1 Summary of patients characteristics

	Multiple plastic stents	cSEMS
n	109	48
Sex
Male	76 (69.7%)	36 (75.0%)
Female	33 (30.3%)	12 (25.0%)
Age (yr)
Mean (± SD)	48.8 (± 14.5)	54.5 (± 12.9)
Median	50	56.8
Range	10-75	17-73
Time of anastomotic stricture after orthotopic liver transplantation (d)
Mean (± SD)	214.2 (± 411.4)	221.6 (± 263.3)
Median	72	115.5
Range	6-2663	8-1339
Hepatic artery associated lesions
Stenosis	3 (2.8%)	3 (6.3%)
Thrombosis	8 (7.3%)	1 (2.1%)
Associated biliary lesions
Anastomotic fistula	5 (4.6%)	2 (4.2%)
Non-anastomotic fistula	1 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)
Non-anastomotic stricture	1 (0.9%)	0 (0.0%)
Cholangitis	2 (1.8%)	0 (0.0%)
Stones	2 (1.8%)	0 (0.0%)

cSEMS: Covered self-expandable metal stents.