Successful heart and liver transplantation in a Swiss patient with Glu89Lys transthyretin amyloidosis.

LLS for small babies, especially when the graft has multiple hepatic veins. Seisuke Sakamoto Takanobu Shigeta Ikumi Hamano Akinari Fukuda Toshihiko Kakiuchi Naoto Matsuno Hideaki Tanaka Atsuko Nakagawa Mureo Kasahara 1 Division of Transplant Surgery National Center for Child Health and Development Tokyo, Japan 2 Division of Pediatric Surgery National Center for Child Health and Development Tokyo, Japan 3 Division of Pathology National Center for Child Health and Development Tokyo, Japan This work was supported, in part, by grants from the Scientific Research Fund of the Ministry of Education and by a research grant for immunology, allergy and organ transplant from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, Japan, and Foundation for Growth Science, Japan. Address correspondence to: Seisuke Sakamoto, M.D., Ph.D., 2-10-1 Okura, Setagaya, Tokyo 157-8535, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] S.S. and M.K. participated in research design, data analysis, and writing of the manuscript; T.S., A.F., I.H., T.K., and A.N. participated in data analysis; and N.M. and H.T. participated in research design. Received 4 October 2010. Accepted 24 November 2010. Copyright © 2011 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ISSN 0041-1337/11/9106-38 DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182088bb5