Role of colectomy in preventing recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis in liver transplant recipients

To study the published evidence on the impact of colectomy in preventing recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis (rPSC).An unrestricted systematic literature search in PubMed, EMBASE, Medline OvidSP, ISI Web of Science, Lista (EBSCO) and the Cochrane library was performed on clinical studies investigating colectomy in liver transplantation (LT) recipients with and without rPSC in the liver allograft. Study quality was evaluated according to a...