Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure

Authors
House, AK Jeffrey, GP Edyvane, KA Barker, AP Chapman, MD Garas, G Ferguson, J van Heerden, PV Gibbs, NM Heath, DI Mitchell, AW
Citation
Ak. House et al., Adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation for fulminant hepatic failure, MED J AUST, 175(4), 2001, pp. 202-204
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
General & Internal Medicine","Medical Research General Topics
Journal title
MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA
ISSN journal
0025729X → ACNP
Volume
175
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
202 - 204
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-729X(20010820)175:4<202:ALDLTF>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
The outcome of fulminant hepatic failure without timely liver transplantati on is poor. We describe a 19-year-old woman with fulminant hepatic failure due to acute hepatitis B Infection who received a living donor liver transp lant from her sister. The donor's recovery was uneventful, allowing hospita l discharge on Day 6. Two months after transplantation the recipient develo ped a biliary stricture requiring surgery. One year after transplantation, her liver function was normal.