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Two Girls from New Jersey Receive Lifesaving Liver Transplants at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital

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Team from Newly Launched Pediatric Liver Disease & Transplant Program Performed the First-Ever Pediatric Liver Transplants at Hospital Within a Week of Each Other

Surgeons at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone and the NYU Langone Transplant Institute have successfully performed the first two pediatric liver transplants at the institution. The lifesaving surgeries were conducted within a week of each other, giving hope and a new lease on life to two young girls from New Jersey.

To address the rising incidence of liver disease in children and the critical need for quality care, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital formed the Pediatric Liver Disease and Transplant Program this April.  Read the complete press release from NYU Langone Health.

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3D Planning Cut Post-Op Complications in Kids’ Liver Transplants

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— But little effect on graft, patient survival rates

Use of advanced preoperative 3D planning for pediatric liver transplant patients receiving larger grafts was associated with lower risk of postoperative complications, a small retrospective study in Taiwan found.

Kids receiving living-donor livers that were large-for-size — graft-to-recipient weight ratio (GRWR) ≥4% — had a significantly lower risk for postoperative complications in the 3D era than those receiving larger grafts in the pre-3D era and a control group of kids receiving better size-matched organs (OR 0.06, 95% CI 0.006-0.700, P=0.025), reported Chinsu Liu, MD, PhD, of the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, and colleagues. Read more.

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NASH linked to sharp increase in liver transplants in older patients

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As liver transplants significantly increase among older patients, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis has become the most common reason for the procedure in this population, according to a study published in Hepatology Communications.

“Another study from our team, which in publication in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggests that the proportion of elderly patients in need of liver transplantation in the U.S. is sharply increasing,” study author Zobair M. Younossi MD, MPH, president of Inova Medicine Services and professor and chairman of the department of medicine at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in Virginia, told Healio. Read more.

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