Abstract
Liver transplantation is a successful therapeutic modality for children with liver failure, inborn metabolic disorders and some liver tumours. It offers long-term survival with good quality of life.
Organ scarcity is being overcome due to innovative surgical techniques, which has resulted in almost no waiting-list mortality. Forty-six liver transplantations in 40 children (four of them younger than 4 years old) were performed in IKEM from 1995 to June 2009.
Patient survival after liver transplantation in IKEM was: - 84.6 %, 1-year survival, - 77.2 %, 5-year survival, and - 77.2 %, 10-year survival. These very good results, comparable with European and North American statistics, could only be reached through the close cooperation of the multidisciplinary team.