Pediatric liver transplantation for acute liver failure at a single center: A 10-yr experience

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

Children transplanted for ALF urgently require an optimal graft and have lower post-transplant survival compared with children transplanted for chronic liver disease. Over 10 yr, 33 consecutive children transplanted for ALF were followed. Demographics, encephalopathy, intubation, dialysis, laboratory values, graft type ABOI, XL (GRWR > 5%), DDSLT, LDLT and WLT were evaluated. Complications and survival were determined. ALF accounted for 33/201 (16.4%) of transplants during this period. Twelve of 33 received ABOI, five XL grafts, 18 DDSLT, and three LDLT. Waiting time pretransplant was 2.1 days. One- and three-yr patient survival in the ALF group was 93.4% and 88.9%, and graft survivals were 86.4% and 77.7%. Median follow-up was 1452 days. ABOI one- and three yr patient and graft survival in the ALF was 91.6% and 78.6%. No difference in graft or patient survival was noted in the ALF and chronic liver disease group or the ABOI and the ABO compatible group. A combination of ABO incompatible donor livers, XL grafts, DDSLT, LDLT and WLT led to a short wait time and subsequent graft and patient survival comparable to patients with non-acute disease. © 2009 John Wiley & Sons A/S.

Publication Title

Pediatric transplantation

Volume

14

Issue

2

First Page

228

Last Page

232

Comments

This article was published in Pediatric transplantation, Volume 14, Issue 2, Pages 228-232.

The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3046.2009.01202.x.

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