BMJ Open (Jun 2024)

Incidence, management and outcomes in hepatic artery complications after paediatric liver transplantation: protocol of the retrospective, international, multicentre HEPATIC Registry

  • Barbara E Wildhaber,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Martin de Santibañes,
  • Victoria Ardiles,
  • Xueli Bai,
  • Mukesh Kumar,
  • Mohamed Rela,
  • Reinoud P H Bokkers,
  • Ekkehard Sturm,
  • Simon McGuirk,
  • Girish Gupte,
  • Esteban Frauca,
  • Francisco Hernández-Oliveros,
  • Winita Hardikar,
  • Helen Evans,
  • Khalid Sharif,
  • Jiří Froněk,
  • David Duncan,
  • Emmanuel Gonzales,
  • Carl Jorns,
  • Alessandro Parente,
  • Ulrich Baumann,
  • Lidia Monti,
  • Marco Spada,
  • Denise Aldrian,
  • Hubert P J van der Doef,
  • Thomas Casswall,
  • Martin Delle,
  • Georg F Vogel,
  • Adam Kolesnik,
  • Mauricio Larrarte K,
  • Paolo Marra,
  • Michela Bravi,
  • Domenico Pinelli,
  • Hajime Uchida,
  • Vidyadhar Mali,
  • Marion Aw,
  • Stéphanie Franchi-Abella,
  • Florent Guérin,
  • Julia Minetto,
  • Sergio Sierre,
  • Jimmy Walker Uno,
  • Steffen Hartleif,
  • Cristina T Ferreira,
  • Luiza S Nader,
  • Catalina Jaramillo,
  • Amit A Shah,
  • Michael R Acord,
  • Tommaso Alterio,
  • Marisa Beretta,
  • Haritha Rajakrishnan,
  • Sudhindran Surendran,
  • Weihao Li,
  • Marcelo Dip,
  • Sue Bates,
  • Lynette Goh,
  • Jonathan Seisenbacher,
  • Joao Seda Neto,
  • Eduardo Antunes da Fonseca,
  • Carolina Magalhães Costa,
  • Marco A Farina,
  • Khaled Z Dajani,
  • David L Bigam,
  • Ting-Bo Liang,
  • Lucie Gonsorčíková,
  • Šimon Bohuš,
  • Norman Junge,
  • Nicolas Richter,
  • Muthukumarassamy Rajakannu,
  • Kumar Palaniappan,
  • Arti Pawaria,
  • Shaleen Agarwal,
  • Subhash Gupta,
  • Sonal Asthana,
  • Vaishnavi Bandewar,
  • Karthik Raichurkar,
  • Yusuke Yanagi,
  • Ryuji Komine,
  • Peter Carr-Boyd,
  • Marek Stefanowicz,
  • Julita Latka-Grot,
  • Dieter C Broering,
  • Dimitri A Raptis,
  • Kris Ann H Marquez,
  • Francisca Van der Schyff,
  • Jesús Quintero-Bernabeu,
  • Maria Mercadal-Hally,
  • Ane M Andres,
  • Riccardo Superina,
  • Juan Carlos Caicedo,
  • Leandra Bitterfeld,
  • Zachary Kastenberg,
  • Bryanna Domenick,
  • George V Mazariegos,
  • Kyle Soltys,
  • Joseph DiNorcia,
  • Swanti Antala,
  • Sander S Florman,
  • Bettina M Buchholz,
  • Uta Herden,
  • Lutz Fischer,
  • Rudi A J O Dierckx,
  • Hermien Hartog

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081933
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 6

Abstract

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Introduction Hepatic artery complications (HACs), such as a thrombosis or stenosis, are serious causes of morbidity and mortality after paediatric liver transplantation (LT). This study will investigate the incidence, current management practices and outcomes in paediatric patients with HAC after LT, including early and late complications.Methods and analysis The HEPatic Artery stenosis and Thrombosis after liver transplantation In Children (HEPATIC) Registry is an international, retrospective, multicentre, observational study. Any paediatric patient diagnosed with HAC and treated for HAC (at age <18 years) after paediatric LT within a 20-year time period will be included. The primary outcomes are graft and patient survivals. The secondary outcomes are technical success of the intervention, primary and secondary patency after HAC intervention, intraprocedural and postprocedural complications, description of current management practices, and incidence of HAC.Ethics and dissemination All participating sites will obtain local ethical approval and (waiver of) informed consent following the regulations on the conduct of observational clinical studies. The results will be disseminated through scientific presentations at conferences and through publication in peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration number The HEPATIC registry is registered at the ClinicalTrials.gov website; Registry Identifier: NCT05818644.