Liver transplantation for biliary atresia

Liver transplantation for biliary atresia.

Biliary atresia is the most common indication for liver transplantation (OLT) in children. We present our experience with OLT as a treatment for end-stage liver disease in children with biliary atresia. We performed a retrospective review of 20 biliary atresia patients (11 male, 9 female patients; mean age, 21.4 months; range, 6 to 84 months) who had undergone OLT. Mean preoperative weight and ...

Liver Transplantation for Biliary Atresia*

tried, but with little success, and many do not recommend it because even in adult cases where carcinoma is the underlying obstructive factor, the result obtained with the Longmire procedure is invariably poor and short-lived. The final cure will ultimately be in the hands of the geneticist, who must prophylactically reduce the number of congenital atresia cases that come before the surgeon. Fi...

Living donor liver transplantation for biliary atresia.

Biliary atresia is the most common cause of chronic cholestasis in infants and children. The incidence is estimated at 3.7:10,000 among Taiwanese infants. Kasai hepatoportoenterostomy helps children survive beyond infancy. Liver transplantation is indicated when the Kasai procedure fails to work or when patients develop progressive deterioration of liver function despite an initially successful...

Liver transplantation in biliary atresia with concomitant hepatoma.

Biliary atresia: clinical profiles, risk factors, and outcomes of 755 patients listed for liver transplantation.

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that risk analysis from the time of listing for liver transplantation (LT) focuses attention on areas where outcomes can be improved. STUDY DESIGN Competing outcomes and multivariate models were used to determine significant risk factors for pretransplantation and posttransplantation mortality and graft failure in patients with biliary atresia (BA) listed for...