Postoperative angiographic and interventional radiologic evaluation of liver recipients.

Since the first liver transplant in 1968 at the University of Minnesota, over 125 liver transplants have been performed. Postoperatively, these patients require intensive care, and many ultimately require angiographic or interventional radiologic procedures, or both, to diagnose postoperative vascular anastomotic problems, thrombotic complications, biliary anastomotic problems, and infrequently, hemorrhagic problems.