Our Liver Transplantation Experience: A One-Year Single Center Study

Objective: To present our center’s cadaveric and living donor liver transplantation experience in 2016. Material and Methods: A total of forty-eigtht adult and pediatric patients who had undergone cadaveric and living donor liver transplantation at our organ transplantation center in 2016 were included in our study. The patients’ and donors’ demographics, indications, technical data about operations, postoperative biliary anastomosis and vascular complications, the length of stay in the hospital, follow-up time and outcomes were analyzed retrospectively. Results: Mean (±standard deviation) age of patients (24 male, 24 female) was 40.6 (±20.1). The most common indications were HBV-related cirrhosis and cryptogenic cirrhosis. The number of living donor liver transplantations was 29. Mean (±SD) follow-up time and length of hospital stay were 5.4 (±3.7) months and 23.5 (±20.7) days, respectively. While no patient had a hepatic vein complication, one (2.1%) patient had portal vein thrombosis at the fourth postoperative hour and one (2.1%) patient had decreased hepatic arterial flow after the third postoperative month. Complication of bile duct anastomosis was developed in eight patients (16.6%). The rate of patient survival was 87.5%. Conclusion: According to our one-year experience, cadaveric and living donor liver transplantation are performed successfully at our transplantation center.