Comment on pediatric living donor liver transplantation decade progress in Shanghai: Characteristics and risks factors of mortality

Abstract

Since the first successful liver transplantation was performed five decades ago, pediatric liver transplantation has become the gold standard treatment choice for pediatric liver disease, including metabolic diseases, liver tumors, and some acute liver failure. With improvements in immunosuppression, surgical techniques, and postoperative medical care, long-term outcomes of patients after liver transplantation have markedly improved, especially in pediatric patients.

Keywords: Living donor liver transplantation; Living donor pediatric liver transplantation; Outcomes; Pediatric end stage liver disease; Risk factors; Survival analysis.