HEPATOPANCREATOBILIARY

Chronic Graft Injury

Feb 23, 2021 by in HEPATOPANCREATOBILIARY Comments Off on Chronic Graft Injury

Introduction Patient and graft survival after pediatric liver transplantation (LT) has improved significantly: children undergoing LT have a patient survival of 79% and graft survival of 63% 10 years post-transplant,…

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Prospects for Immune Tolerance

Feb 23, 2021 by in HEPATOPANCREATOBILIARY Comments Off on Prospects for Immune Tolerance

Introduction The extraordinary success of liver transplantation (LT) as a treatment for end-stage liver diseases has resulted in the need to redirect research priorities and clinical resources toward improving the…

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Liver Retransplantation

Feb 23, 2021 by in HEPATOPANCREATOBILIARY Comments Off on Liver Retransplantation

Incidence and Indications—Early and Late Liver Retransplantation The incidence of graft failure after pediatric liver transplantation has been decreasing with surgical and medical progress, but still reaches 10% to 15%…

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Metabolic Conditions

Feb 23, 2021 by in HEPATOPANCREATOBILIARY Comments Off on Metabolic Conditions

An inherited metabolic disorder is an increasingly common indication for liver transplantation (LT), accounting for more than 15% of pediatric cases worldwide and up to 30% in some specialist centers….

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