Liver transplantation in children using organs from young paediatric donors

Criminal Challenges of Removal of Organs from Living Donors for Transplantation

Organ transplantation in Iran like many other countries is accepted as the last therapeutic method for patients with end-stage organ failure. Sources of transplantable organs include living and deceased/brain dead donors, among which a considerable number of organs for transplant are obtained from living donors. Removal of organs from deceased and brain dead donors for transplantation is allowe...

Liver Transplantation In Young Children: Japanese Experience

Organ transplantation center, Tokyo Japan reviews the experience of liver transplantation in young children. Based on 27 years experience, since the living donor liver transplantation was first performed in Japan, some of the newer developments necessity by paucity of organs and desire for decreasing mortality and morbidity are presented in this paper. From one transplant in 1989 the number has...

Pediatric liver transplantation from neonatal donors.

Sixteen recipients of neonatal liver grafts were compared with 114 contemporaneous pediatric recipients of grafts from older donors. Graft and patient survival were worse in the neonatal group although the differences were not statistically significant. Patients with neonatal livers who had no technical complications required a longer time postoperatively to correct jaundice and a prolonged pro...

Successful liver transplantation from crossmatch-positive donors.

Donors for liver transplantation.

There is good evidence that the decade of the 1980s will witness an expansion of efforts to transplant extrarenal organs. This will have a profound effect in pediatrics, and particularly in the field of hepatology. The number of infants born with biliary atresia is not known with certainty, but it is likely that there are approximately 500 new cases each year in the United States. The number of...