Doppler ultrasonography in living donor liver transplantation recipients: Intra- and post-operative vascular complications

Figure 14 Intra-operative hepatic vein stenosis. A: Intra-operative B-mode US image showing tight stricture along the RHV anastomosis with the IVC (arrows); B: Pulsed Doppler image showing dampened intra-hepatic venous spectral flow, loss of the normal venous phasicity and anastomotic jet (> 3-fold) compared to the intrahepatic flow; C: Pulsed Doppler image after surgical revision of the RHV anastomosis demonstrating improvement of the flow with regaining the triphasic pattern respecting the cardiac cycle. RHV: Right hepatic vein; IVC: Inferior vena cava.