Technical variant liver grafts in pediatric transplantation: Call to action.

Patient and graft survival were comparable between TV grafts and whole organ graft recipients. An appraisal of technical variant grafts compared to whole liver grafts in pediatric liver transplant recipients: multicenter analysis from the Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) registry. Abbreviations OPTN Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network SPLIT Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation TV Technical Variant In this issue, McElroy and colleagues report an important reappraisal of the outcomes of technical variant (TV) liver grafts in the multicenter Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT) database.[1] A total of 1839 children were analyzed for the report of which 18% received living donor grafts, 26% received deceased donor TV grafts, and 56% received whole grafts over the 8 year study period. [Extracted from the article]