Children and families can achieve normal psychological adjustment and a good quality of life following pediatric liver transplantation: A long-term study

Rehospitalization after pediatric living-donor liver transplantation

“…Cholangitis: Patients 1,7,8,11,and 13 Five patients who were rehospitalized because of cholangitis were classified into group C, and the other patients were classified into group NC ( Table 2). There were no characteristic factors of those in group C in regard to age at transplant, gender, native liver disease, and blood type.…”

“…Loinaz et al (7) reported that the mean follow-up period for adult patients was 119.3 months and that the readmission rate was 56.2% after the first year, with a mean cumulative hospitalization stay of 3 weeks. Stone et al (8) reported that of 20 pediatric patients who underwent liver transplantation, 11 were admitted for varicella, 6 were admitted various times for liver biopsy, and 1 was admitted for a partial hepatic resection, and that rehospitalization was frequent. The rate of days spent rehospitalized to the days elapsed after the first hospital stay for LDLT was 6.56% on average, that is, patients were rehospitalized 23.9 days in 1 year.…”

Liver transplantation for malignant liver tumors in children

“…The Boston Children's Hospital followed 20 patients over 5 years after transplantation [23]. All had normal growth and attend school; 80% participated in organized sports; and 75% of patients and 70% of families functioned within the normal range, as assessed by Children's Global Assessment Scale and Global Assessment of Relational Functioning.…”

Multifocal hepatoblastoma: Is there a place for partial hepatectomy?

“…Liver transplantation was accepted as a conventional therapeutic procedure less than 20 years ago, and the continuous refinements in organ preservation, operative technique, and immunosuppression have led to a rapid increase in long-term survival probabilities. After OLT, quality of life appears to be very good: children have normal growth, attend school, and participate in organized sports [9]. These good results have led to an expansion in the eligibility criteria.…”