IMAGING IN LIVER-TRANSPLANTATION

Orthotopic liver transplantation, a well-accepted treatment for end-st age liver disease and for many metabolic disorders, currently achieves better than 85% long-term survival in children, Imaging has a large p art in evaluating the transplant candidate preoperatively and in the p ostoperative follow-up of the recipient. Vascular and biliary complica tions,biopsies, and drainage procedures draw heavily upon the interven tionalist's skills. We survey for the radiologist the still-evolving a rena of liver transplantation and imaging's place in it.