Author(s)

Ronaldo de Oliveira Andrade, Rodrigo da Silva Pires, Raul Évora Silva, Felipe Pedreira Tavares de Mello, Cláudia Cristina Tavares de Sousa, Samanta Teixeira Basto, Eduardo de Souza Martins Fernandes

Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant, Hospital Adventista Silvestre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Acute appendicitis is rare in the postoperative period of liver transplantation; only 23 cases were described in the literature to date, including late and immediate postoperative. Our case reports a patient who was presented with acute appendicitis in the immediate post-transplant and died in the subsequent postoperative period. The article reviews the available literature and all cases known until now, commenting on incidence, casual factors, symptoms, diagnostic and management.

Appendicitis, Complications, Early Postoperative, Liver Transplantation

Andrade, R. , Pires, R. , Silva, R. , Mello, F. , Sousa, C. , Basto, S. and Fernandes, E. (2014) Acute Appendicitis after Liver Transplant: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Open Journal of Organ Transplant Surgery, 4, 29-32. doi: 10.4236/ojots.2014.44005.