Orthotopic liver transplantation in patients with biliary atresia and situs inversus
โ Scribed by P. Mattei; B. Wise; K. Schwarz; A. Klein; P. M. Colombani
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 232 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-0358
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## Living -donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has become an established technique to treat children with endstage liver disease. Biliary atresia (BA), one of the most common indications for liver transplantation in children, can be associated with situs inversus (SI). In the past, the presence of S
A 7-month-old boy with biliary atresia accompanied by situs inversus and absent inferior vena cava (IVC) underwent living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Because a constriction in the recipient hepatic vein (HV) was detected during the preparation of the HV in LDLT, a dissection in the cranial d
Biliary atresia is the most common indication for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in the pediatric population. The outcomes of liver transplantation for biliary atresia, however, have not been formally examined on a national scale. The objective of this study was to identify pretransplant var
The aim of this study was to assess the risk and prognostic factors of gut perforation after orthotopic liver transplantation in children with biliary, atresia using univariate and stepwise regression analysis. Among 51 pediatric recipients who underwent transplantation because of biliary atresia af