A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient

A young female patient who developed anastomotic biliary stricture following an orthotopic liver transplantation was observed. A self-expandable metallic stent was placed to correct the stricture. At the 8th month of her repeat pregnancy, the stent broke asymptomatically into half. Fortunately, the...

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Main Authors: P. G. Tarazov, A. A. Polikarpov, D. A. Granov, V. V. Borovik
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Published: Federal Research Center of Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after V.I.Shumakov 2021-04-01
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Online Access:https://journal.transpl.ru/vtio/article/view/1313
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description A young female patient who developed anastomotic biliary stricture following an orthotopic liver transplantation was observed. A self-expandable metallic stent was placed to correct the stricture. At the 8th month of her repeat pregnancy, the stent broke asymptomatically into half. Fortunately, the second childbirth, like the first one, had no complications. Eighteen months later, due to obstruction of fragments by sludge and gallstones, re-stenting was performed with a coated biliary stent. Four years and five months later, recurrent jaundice occurred due to occlusion of the second stent. This was addressed by surgical removal of both stents. Two years after surgery, the bile ducts remain completely patent. We found only two cases in literature on a similar extremely rare biliary stenting complication. It has been suggested that stent deformation may be related to pregnancy. The feasibility of using stenting in benign biliary strictures in some clinical situations is discussed.
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spelling doaj-art-90c6a340270d47c19690c2f2cf65f4c22025-08-20T03:21:06ZrusFederal Research Center of Transplantology and Artificial Organs named after V.I.ShumakovВестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов1995-11912021-04-01231384210.15825/1995-1191-2021-1-38-42954A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patientP. G. Tarazov0A. A. Polikarpov1D. A. Granov2V. V. Borovik3Granov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical TechnologiesGranov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical TechnologiesGranov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical TechnologiesGranov Russian Research Center of Radiology and Surgical TechnologiesA young female patient who developed anastomotic biliary stricture following an orthotopic liver transplantation was observed. A self-expandable metallic stent was placed to correct the stricture. At the 8th month of her repeat pregnancy, the stent broke asymptomatically into half. Fortunately, the second childbirth, like the first one, had no complications. Eighteen months later, due to obstruction of fragments by sludge and gallstones, re-stenting was performed with a coated biliary stent. Four years and five months later, recurrent jaundice occurred due to occlusion of the second stent. This was addressed by surgical removal of both stents. Two years after surgery, the bile ducts remain completely patent. We found only two cases in literature on a similar extremely rare biliary stenting complication. It has been suggested that stent deformation may be related to pregnancy. The feasibility of using stenting in benign biliary strictures in some clinical situations is discussed.https://journal.transpl.ru/vtio/article/view/1313orthotopic liver transplantationbiliary stricturebiliary stentingbroken stentpregnancy
spellingShingle P. G. Tarazov
A. A. Polikarpov
D. A. Granov
V. V. Borovik
A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
Вестник трансплантологии и искусственных органов
orthotopic liver transplantation
biliary stricture
biliary stenting
broken stent
pregnancy
title A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
title_full A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
title_fullStr A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
title_full_unstemmed A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
title_short A bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post-liver transplant patient
title_sort bile duct stent broken during repeat pregnancy in a post liver transplant patient
topic orthotopic liver transplantation
biliary stricture
biliary stenting
broken stent
pregnancy
url https://journal.transpl.ru/vtio/article/view/1313
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