False-positive diagnosis using the conventional criterion of anastomosis site abnormality without distal run-off abnormality in a 48-year-old female after living-donor liver transplantation.Maximal intensity projection image shows diffuse stenosis at the anastomosis site (arrows). The patient had normal laboratory findings. Doppler ultrasound abnormalities were normalized after 25 days, and no associated complication was seen in this patient within 6 months of follow-up.