Version July 2025
| Donor-related factors - Transplanted liver from a living donor or a donation after cardiac death (DCD) donor; older age of donor; high donor body mass index; macrovesicular graft steatosis >25% |
| Recipient-related factors - History of primary sclerosing cholangitis, cytomegalovirus infection |
| Vascular factors - Hepatic artery thrombosis, hepatic artery stenosis |
| Surgical/technical factors - Excessive dissection of periductal tissue during procurement of the liver graft; excessive use of electrocautery for control of biliary ductal bleeding; tension at the anastomosis; small bile duct diameter of the graft; mismatched size between donor and recipient bile ducts; ischemia/reperfusion injury; prolonged cold and/or warm ischemia times |
| Postoperative factors - Bile leak |
| Other factors - ABO incompatibility |
