title: Paediatric living donor liver transplantation.
abstract: Paediatric liver transplantation is a highly effective therapy for children with end-stage liver disease; 1-year survival rates currently exceed 90% and long-term survivors enjoy an almost-normal quality of life. Key to the success of paediatric liver transplantation has been the technical refinement to provide children with suitably sized grafts. Adult-to-paediatric living donor liver transplantation highlights this success and has been instrumental in decreasing waiting list mortality to less than 5%.
authors.affiliation: Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. jeanf.botha@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jean Frederick
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Botha
mesh_terms: D001656:Biliary Atresia / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D058625:End Stage Liver Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D019520:Living Donors; D011379:Prognosis