**15. Postoperative surgical complications**

#### **15.1 Early surgical complications**

In the early postoperative period, according to Parikh et al., 79.3% of patients are present with at least one complication with 62.8% of the recipients suffering severe


#### **Table 3.**

*Immediate surgical complications after LT.*


#### **Table 4.**

*Vascular complications after LT.*

complications. The incidence of those related to surgical techniques range from 5 to 10% and can be categorized into abdominal bleedings, vascular complications, and biliary complications. Treatment can be determined by the severity of each case and its spectrum includes simple surgical interventions, or even re-transplantation. The main complications are illustrated in **Tables 3** and **4** along with diagnostic and therapeutic approaches [108, 109].
