title: [Reduced-size liver transplants in children].
abstract: Orthotopic liver transplantation is now used for children with end-stage liver disease, but the scarcity of size-matched liver allografts for children has limited its use. Reduced-size liver transplantation, in which only part of the liver is used as a graft, overcomes size disparity and increases significantly the potential donor pool for children. A 4-year-old boy with fulminating hepatic failure due to hepatitis became the first case of reduced-size liver transplantation in Israel. A left hepatic lobe allograft from an adult donor was used. The boy is home and well 9 months after transplantation. Reduced-size liver transplantation was first performed in a child by Bismuth and Houssin in 1984. Reports from several centers show that survival of recipients of reduced-size liver allografts and the rate of retransplantation does not differ significantly from that in recipients of full-sized livers.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Hadassah Medical Center, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Eid
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Katz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yatziv
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ilan
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Berlatzky
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Granot
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tur-Caspa
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male