title: [Deceased donor liver transplantation receiving a liver from a child under six years old: an experience of organ retrieval from a pediatric donor in Japan].
abstract: We report a first pediatric liver transplantation from a brain-dead donor under 6-year-old in Japan. A 9-month-old girl suffered from graft failure after living donor liver transplantation for biliary atresia. The deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT) from under 6-year-old was performed. It was important to select appropriate surgical devices for the pediatric organ recovery based on the preoperative evaluation. Sufficient vessel grafts were procured because of difficult vascular reconstruction. She discharged on 172 days after DDLT. There have been few cases of pediatric organ donation in Japan. Therefore we should make careful preparation for both of donor and recipient.
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Ikumi
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Hamano
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Seisuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Akinari
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fukuda
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Hajime
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Kengo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Takanobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shigeta
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, National Center for Child Health and Development, Tokyo.
authors.forename: Mureo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ogura
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary, Pancreas and Transplant Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uemoto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001926:Brain Death; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting