Case Report
Internal Hernia in a Liver Transplant Recipien: A Case Report
Table 1
Summary of the clinical data of all reported cases.
| Author/year | Age/sex | Graft | Porte of hernia | Onset of hernia after LTx. | Diagnosis by | Therapy | Prognosis |
| Newton et al./1988 [7] | 29 y.o./F | N. A. | Around Roux-en-Y | N. A. | Laparotomy | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Khanna et al./1997 [8] | 12 y.o./F | N. A. | Around Roux-en-Y | 10 years | CT | Repair of hernia, BR and small bowel transplantation | Alive | Khanna et al./1997 [8] | 14 y.o./F | N. A. | Mesenteric window | 2 years | Laparotomy | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Khanna et al./1997 [8] | 12 y.o./F | N. A. | Mesenteric window | 13 days | Laparotomy | Repair of hernia and with BR | Dead | Khanna et al./1997 [8] | 38 y.o./F | N. A. | Mesenteric window | 19 months | Laparotomy | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Liu et al./2004 [6] | 56 y.o./M | Right lobe | Around Roux-en-Y | 20 months | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Liu et al./2004 [6] | 50 y.o./M | Right lobe | Around Roux-en-Y | 19 months | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Liu et al./2004 [6] | 44 y.o./F | Right lobe | Mesenteric window | 23 months | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Liu et al./2004 [6] | 41 y.o./M | Right lobe | Around Roux-en-Y | 17 months | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Eberhardt et al./2012 [9] | 12 y.o./M | Left lobe | Around Roux-en-Y | 11 years | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive | Our case/2013 | 42 y.o./F | Left lobe | Around Roux-en-Y | 6 years | CT | Repair of hernia without BR | Alive |
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LTx: liver transplantation; N. A.: not available; CT: computed tomography; BR: bowel resection.
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