title: Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure.
abstract: The outcome of fulminant hepatic failure without timely liver transplantation is poor. We describe a 19-year-old woman with fulminant hepatic failure due to acute hepatitis B infection who received a living donor liver transplant from her sister. The donor's recovery was uneventful, allowing hospital discharge on Day 6. Two months after transplantation the recipient developed a biliary stricture requiring surgery. One year after transplantation, her liver function was normal.
authors.affiliation: Liver Transplant Service of Western Australia, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth. akhouse@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: House
authors.forename: G P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Jeffrey
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Edyvane
authors.forename: A P
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Chapman
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garas
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ferguson
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: van Heerden
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.forename: D I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Heath
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Mitchell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D011184:Postoperative Period; D016896:Treatment Outcome