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Title: | An ABO-incompatible living donor liver transplant in an infant with acute liver failure in the Sri Lankan setting |
Authors: | Fernando, M. Tillakaratne, S. Gunetilleke, B. Liyanage, C. Appuhamy, C. Weerasuriya, A. Dissanayake, J. Siriwardana, R. |
Keywords: | ABO-incompatible liver transplant Living donorInfant Acute liver failure Sri Lanka |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | The Sri Lanka Medical Association |
Citation: | Ceylon Medical Journal.2023;68(1):25–28. |
Abstract: | 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). |
Description: | Not Indexed in MEDLINE |
URI: | http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/27439 |
ISSN: | 0009-0875 (Print) 2386-1274 (Electronic) |
Appears in Collections: | Journal/Magazine Articles |
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