1. [Living related liver transplantation - analysis of the first 102 cases].
- Author
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Pawłowska J, Kaliciński P, Jankowska I, Teisseyre M, Teisseyre J, Kamińska D, Nachulewicz P, Markiewicz-Kijewska M, and Socha J
- Subjects
- Adrenal Cortex Hormones therapeutic use, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Graft Rejection drug therapy, Graft Rejection prevention & control, Graft Survival, Humans, Immunosuppression Therapy methods, Infant, Liver Failure, Acute diagnosis, Male, Mycophenolic Acid analogs & derivatives, Mycophenolic Acid therapeutic use, Poland, Postoperative Complications mortality, Retrospective Studies, Survival Rate, Tacrolimus therapeutic use, Treatment Outcome, Liver Failure, Acute mortality, Liver Failure, Acute surgery, Liver Transplantation statistics & numerical data, Living Donors statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
The Aim: of the study was to analyse the first 102 living-related liver transplantations performed in Poland at the Children's Memorial Health Institute., Material: between November 1999 and January 2007 102 living-related liver transplantations were carried out in 101 patients. In 63 the patients the indication for liver transplantation was biliary atresia, in 7 - intrahepatic cholestasis, in 11 - acute liver failure, in 9 - hepatic tumour, in two - graft insufficiency. The remaining indications included hepatic cirrosis in course of cystic fibrosis, Caroli disease and biliary cysts. There were 61 girls and 40 boys aged from 4 months to 11 years (mean 2.5 years). The body weight ranged from 4.5 to 31 kg (mean 12 kg)., Results: eighty seven children are alive (86%). Five died in the early posttranplant period (between 2 and 11 days after operation), 9 died in the later period (from 36 days to 5 years and 10 months after the operation). The most serious, life threatening early and late complications were bacterial infections. The most frequent scheme of immunosuppressive treatment was tacrolimus and corticosteroids (64%) and tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil (16%)., Conclusion: living-related liver transplantation is an effective method of treatment of acute and end-stage liver diseases in children with low body mass.
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- 2007