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  • Title: The vascular pathology of human hepatic allografts.
    Author: Liu G, Butany J, Wanless IR, Cameron R, Greig P, Levy G.
    Journal: Hum Pathol; 1993 Feb; 24(2):182-8. PubMed ID: 8432512.
    Abstract:
    Studies of hepatic transplant vasculopathy (TV) have described arterial lesions in selected cases but have not sought to establish the relative prevalence of various arterial and venous lesions. We examined 20 unselected liver allografts and 12 controls to establish the spectrum and distribution of transplant-related arterial and venous lesions. Sections of 1,175 arteries and 936 portal and hepatic veins were reviewed and several histologic parameters were tabulated. Fibrotic (18 cases: 184 arteries and 17 veins) and cellular (10 cases: 353 arteries and 33 veins) lesions were seen. Three allografts had evidence of severe TV with abundant foam cell, myointimal, and mixed fibrocellular lesions in the intima of arteries. These three grafts also had foam cells in portal veins. Allografts with TV had more stenotic arteries (P < .05) and more intimal cellular proliferation (P < .05) compared with non-TV allografts and with controls. Foam cells often demonstrated immunoperoxidase staining for actin, lysozyme, or UCHL-1. Two of the TV cases had marked paucity of bile ducts and required retransplantation.
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