Paediatric Hepatobiliary
Paediatric living donor liver transplantation
Jean Frederick Botha
Abstract
Paediatric liver transplantation is a highly effective therapy for children with end-stage liver disease; 1-year survival rates currently exceed 90% and long-term survivors enjoy an almost-normal quality of life. Key to the success of paediatric liver transplantation has been the technical refinement to provide children with suitably sized grafts. Adult-to-paediatric living donor liver transplantation highlights this success and has been instrumental in decreasing waiting list mortality to less than 5%.
Author's affiliations
Jean Frederick Botha, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Article History
Date submitted: 2012-08-28
Date published: 2012-09-11
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