The Role of Color Doppler Ultrasound in Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Color Doppler ultrasound (CDUS) is performed to ensure perfect vascular reconstruction after hepatic reperfusion. For the immediate assessment of general condition and early detection of vascular complications, CDUS is becoming essential and is the modality of choice to evaluate hepatic hemodynamics. Thus, CDUS is an important modality, which is widely used in all types of liver transplantation, and is performed in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative periods for routine evaluation of vasculature. Timely recognition of any threat of vascular complications improves the success of living donor liver transplantation. This article will review the current applications of CDUS in living donor liver transplantation.