[The splenic steal syndrome and the gastroduodenal steal syndrome in patients before and after liver transplantation].

The study describes new pathologic entities, the splenohepatic steal-syndrome and the gastroduodenal steal-syndrome, which could be demonstrated by angiography in 17 patients before and after liver transplantation. After the first observation of a splenohepatic steal-syndrome in a patient with unexplained elevation of hepatic enzymes after liver transplantation, a prospective angiographic study was performed, including all liver transplant recipients and patients after liver transplantation with unexplained impaired liver function tests. 9 splenohepatic steal-syndromes could be demonstrated before and 7 after hepatic transplantation, one gastroduodenal steal was seen after liver transplantation. The different therapeutic modalities are discussed.