TITLE:
Acute Appendicitis after Liver Transplant: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
AUTHORS:
Ronaldo de Oliveira Andrade, Rodrigo da Silva Pires, Raul Évora Silva, Felipe Pedreira Tavares de Mello, Cláudia Cristina Tavares de Sousa, Samanta Teixeira Basto, Eduardo de Souza Martins Fernandes
KEYWORDS:
Appendicitis, Complications, Early Postoperative, Liver Transplantation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Organ Transplant Surgery,
Vol.4 No.4,
November
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: Acute appendicitis is rare in the postoperative period of liver transplantation; only 23 cases were described in the literature to date, including late and immediate postoperative. Our case reports a patient who was presented with acute appendicitis in the immediate post-transplant and died in the subsequent postoperative period. The article reviews the available literature and all cases known until now, commenting on incidence, casual factors, symptoms, diagnostic and management.