Recent developments in liver transplantation.
The many developments that have occurred and continue to occur have also meant that the quality of life experienced by recipients of a successful graft is excellent, with more than 85% of patients returning to normal life and work (even having children). While long-term survival still occurs more frequently in favorable groups such as children with metabolic abnormalities or biliary atresia, results are still extremely good for adults, with 3-year survival figures after transplantation for cirrhosis in the order of 75%. These figures also continue to improve, and with the skill and enthusiasm that workers in this field display they seem destined to continue unabated.
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Hepato-Biliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Research Center, South Paris University Faculty of Medicine, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif.
Azoulay
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Dennison
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