Effects of recipient size and allograft type on pediatric liver transplantation for biliary atresia

Sophoclis P. Alexopoulos, Victor Nekrasov, Shu Cao, Susan Groshen, Navpreet Kaur, Yuri S. Genyk, Lea Matsuoka – 10 November 2016 – The majority of pediatric patients with end‐stage liver disease receive a transplant with a whole liver (WL) allograft. However, smaller recipients with biliary atresia (BA) may have improved outcomes with deceased donor partial liver (DDPL) or living donor allografts. This study compares the national outcomes for liver transplantation in BA, with attention to the interaction between liver allograft type and recipient size.

Longterm renal allograft survival after sequential liver‐kidney transplantation from a single living donor

Kumiko Kitajima, Yuichi Ogawa, Katsuyuki Miki, Kotaro Kai, Akihito Sannomiya, Kazuhiro Iwadoh, Toru Murakami, Ichiro Koyama, Ichiro Nakajima, Shohei Fuchinoue – 10 November 2016 – Combined liver‐kidney transplantation (CLKT) is well established as a definitive therapy with the potential to provide complete recovery for certain liver‐kidney diseases, although the results might be contingent on the cause of transplantation.

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