An ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplant in an infant with acute liver failure in the Sri Lankan setting

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2023

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The Sri Lanka Medical Association

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Liver transplant (LT) is the standard therapy for medically refractory acute liver failure (ALF). Finding a deceaseddonor graft in an emergency is challenging and often overcome by living-donation. Blood group matching is practised for LT though ABO-incompatible liver transplant (ABOi-LT) is performed inselected circumstances. We report an infant who underwent successful ABOincompatible living donor LT for ALF of unknown aetiology. This being the country’s first ABOi-LT, the youngest LT recipient to date and the youngest receiving emergency LT for ALF; we describe the novel experience at a resource-limited setting in Sri Lanka (SL).

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ABO-incompatible liver transplant, Living donorInfant, Acute liver failure, Sri Lanka

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Ceylon Medical Journal.2023;68(1):25–28.

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