Successful liver transplantation in babies under 1 year.

Successful liver transplantation in babies under 1 year.

OBJECTIVE To review the outcome of liver transplantation in babies aged less than 1 year. DESIGN Prospective evaluation of survival, clinical complications, and nutritional and developmental status before and one year after liver transplantation. SETTING The Children's Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. SUBJECTS All 25 babies who received liver transplantation from January...

Successful twin pregnancy after orthotopic liver transplantation.

AIM Report of a case of successful twin pregnancy following liver transplantation. PATIENT AND METHOD A 42-year-old nulliparous-woman was subjected to an orthotopic liver transplantation due to Budd-Chiari syndrome. Sixteen months after the transplantation, an ultrasonography revealed twin pregnancy. Her prenatal course was uneventful, except for mild arterial hypertension. The immunosuppress...

Successful liver transplantation from crossmatch-positive donors.

Myocardial Performance after Successful Liver Transplantation

BACKGROUND Myocardial performance index (MPI) or Tei index is a Doppler-derived index of combined systolic and diastolic myocardial function, calculated as the sum of isovolumetric relaxation time (IRT) and isovolumetric contraction time (ICT) divided by the ejection time (ET). OBJECTIVE To evaluate the right and left ventricular systolic and diastolic function using MPI in children before an...

Five-Year Survival After Liver Transplantation.

THROUGH 1979, immunosuppressive therapy for liver transplantation at our center was with azathioprine (or cyclophosphamide) and steroids, to which antilymphocyte gloublin (ALG) was usually added. 13 Failure was more frequent than success. Nevertheless, 55 (32.4%) of the first 170 recipients treated from 1963 on in Denver survived for more than a year, and 31 (18.2%) passed or are just reaching ...