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9149347

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-8-13
pubmed:abstractText
According to French rules for cadaver organ sharing, children with biliary atresia (BA) complicated with acute necrosis (ALN) can be registered on the waiting list for liver transplantation (LT) in a special intermediate grade urgent code. Over a 7 years period, 100 children have been submitted to elective LT for BA and 15 to urgent LT. Urgent procedures accounted for 25% of LT for BA in patients aged 0-2 years and 67% (8/12) in patients under 1 year of age. Children actuarial survival at 1, 12 and 48 months was respectively 66%, 60% and 60% versus 92%, 86% and 85%, deaths occurring earlier in the urgent group. Graft actuarial survival at 1, 12 and 48 months were 60%, 53% and 53% versus 85%, 77% and 76% (p < 0.05), respectively. Outcome of children and grafts after LT is not significantly different in BA cases and in other urgent indications, excluding retransplantations. In a LT program based on cadaver organ donation, allocation of in an urgent registration code to children with BA and ALN offers them more than 50% chance to escape death and does not result in wasting of grafts.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0040-8727
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
181
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
129-38
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Urgent liver transplantation for biliary atresia: the experience in Bicêtre.
pubmed:affiliation
Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, Université Paris 11, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial