Recent advances in pediatric liver transplantation.
Pediatric liver transplantation has matured into a well-established, highly successful treatment for advanced pediatric liver disease. Recent 1-year success rates range from 85% to 95%. This unprecedented achievement is the result of careful selection criteria and optimal timing of transplantation, technical advances in surgical technique, and improved treatment following transplant. This report highlights many recent published findings representing advances that have led to current successful approaches.
Kogan-Liberman
Debora
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Department of Pediatrics, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1656, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Emre
Sukru
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Shneider
Benjamin L
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D002648:Child; D000075202:Contraindications; D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000401:mortality / Q000639:trends; D019520:Living Donors; D008661:Metabolism, Inborn Errors / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012008:Recurrence; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome