Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Monitoring complications of transplanted liver is of significance for increasing the success rate of liver transplantation and prolonging patients’ survival time.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of color Doppler ultrasonography on monitoring the complications of transplanted liver.
METHODS: A computer-based retrieval was performed to search papers addressing the effects of color Doppler ultrasonography on monitoring the complications of transplanted liver published between January 1990 and December 2010 in Wanfang database (http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/) and Medline database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) using key words “color Doppler ultrasonography, liver transplantation, complications post-transplantation. Finally, more than 60 papers were retrieved. By reading title, abstract, and full-text, review and Meta analysis papers and those with repetitive contents were excluded, and 22 papers were included in the final analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Color Doppler ultrasonography is noninvasive, easy to operate, and can precisely locate the foci and dynamically observe the foci. It can effectively determine the size and morphology of transplanted liver and provide valuable information of internal echo and hemodynamics for monitoring the complications of the transplanted liver during the early stage after transplantation, which is very important for clinical early treatment and successful liver transplantation. Therefore, color Doppler ultrasonography is a preferred imaging examination for monitoring the complications after liver transplantation.